A President in hospital and back and a nation in the dark
Donald Trump's participation in superspreader events and dismissive attitude towards the virus despite being hospitalised are evidence of an administrative malady.
The coronavirus' rampage through America threw a spotlight on its failings – on the galling inequality, the fatal partisanship, the susceptibility to fiction and the way in which rugged individualism had curdled into plain old selfishness.
What we have seen over recent days is Donald Trump's presidency in miniature, his worst traits distilled. Two in particular - mendacity and recklessness - are on especially unsettling display. Bloomberg
