If a dramatic medical or economic improvement somehow improves Trump's reelection chances, almost nothing he is doing will have contributed to that outcome
Photo: POOL/Getty Images Over the last 24 hours, President Trump has aggressively widened the circle of people or countries that are making it impossible for Donald Trump to handle the coronavirus. In a Thursday night interview with Sean Hannity, Trump complained about Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer , Washington governor Jay Inslee, and the demand by various hospital staff for more ventilator machines .
The breadth and depth of the pattern strongly suggests people are rallying around their leaders in crisis, regardless of either the quality of the decision-making or the results to date. Rallying around a leader in the initial stages of a crisis is a well-known public-opinion phenomenon. After Iran took Americans hostage, Jimmy Carter’s approval ratings rose 30 points.
Trump told Hannity that social-distancing measures could be scaled back soon in low-density Republican states. “You’ll take the farm belt, you’ll take certain states that aren’t badly impacted,” he said, “They have it under control, they’re incredible governors, they’re incredible senators, they have it under control, they put people immediately under quarantine.”
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