this national health emergency. Thanks

have politicized everything from gun control to climate change to immigration. They have politicized basic science, treating the search for objective facts (needed to form effective policy) as a left wing conspiracy. Eliminating the pandemic response team appointed under President Obama was an act of pure politicization. For the GOP, ideology trumps science and objective reality. That stance is "politicizing" in the extreme.

And if a Democratic administration had reacted to a crisis of this magnitude with such appalling incompetence do you think the GOP would refrain from "politicizing" the issue? Do you think they'd wait until all the dead were buried before hurling political bombshells?

Pointing out this administration's abysmal incoherence in the face of this crisis is absolutely necessary for our survival as a democratic polity. And this level of callous incompetence and arrogant wrong-headed ignorance can't be papered over in the name of "good taste" if we aren't to repeat this sort of travesty time and again.

However, better late than never.

Didn’t pay much attention to politics then.