I’ll have to respectfully disagree. It’s easy enough to blame this on one particularly awful administration, but that regime of ignorance and incompetence and malice is in power in significant part because a large portion of the citizenry (much larger than in other prosperous Western countries) have been convinced that government is never the solution. The effects just get worse and worse, from Quayle to Prince Bush to Palin to this orange dumpster fire.
That’s not victim-blaming, because I’m not assigning just desserts to those who end up dying or getting sick just because they were ignorant, stupid, gullible or hateful enough to vote for politicians who deny reality or eschew the “reality based community” of experts. Red state voters get what they deserve in other ways (basket-case economies and financial losses, mainly), but a pandemic doesn’t allow for the same political distinctions.
