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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

That's a facile analogy. A more honest one would be having an incredibly complex event that hasn't occurred in a century unfold, responding to it in a manner that was flawed in some regards, not flawed in others, and then being excoriated for everything you fucked up, regardless of whether it was deserved (which some of it very much is) or not (which some of it is). Oh, wait -- that's not an analogy.

Trump's politicizing the pandemic was inexcusable. His Administration's action in response to it, however, is a different thing. These things can and should be separated. I'd give the Administration a C+ for its handling. And I don't think an A is possible in a free country even approaching our size (see Germany). Trump I give an F, or an incomplete. Whatever good he might've done he more than offset with his politicizing of the crisis.

So you're saying, it's like when a two-time loser and failed blogger cheats at golf, and people say, well, he is a two-loser and he failed at blogger, and he cheats, but his score isn't that bad.