Disunited states of America: responses to coronavirus shaped by hyper-partisan politics.
”The divergence in state responses to coronavirus does not cleanly split along the red-blue line … It’s more like the rational states versus the Trump Republican states.”
Manuel Pastor. USC
@JohnPhilpin We aren't there yet, but there will be a time of reckoning. When actions will be judged by the results that they sowed and the nut-cups will be swept away.
@JohnPhilpin Ohio is a much better example than Maryland. The latter is a deep blue state where the Republican governor is explicitly anti-Trump. Ohio has a solidly Republican state government which has decided that abortions are not “essential” medical services. I think it may be the only partisan outlier. The other states taking things seriously are solidly blue states or states with Dem. governors.
@JohnPhilpin disunited is the word. Was always the undercurrent but very apparent these days. Sadly.