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The Coronavirus is Not Going to Sink Donald Trump
There is no point in pretending otherwise. “AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness”.
Is Coronavirus the End of Donald Trump?
Media outlets indulging in Democratic hysteria over the Coronavirus are going to be left with egg on their faces. Again.
First, a quick thought experiment.
Imagine you had a very difficult job to do, perhaps the most difficult and dangerous job in the world, let’s say. It is understood that anyone who presumes to do this particular job will be subjected to the most intense scrutiny imaginable.
Now, let’s say in the course of your duties, you have a life-or-death decision to make; a series of decisions. The stakes couldn’t be higher. If you get it right, people live. Get it wrong, people will die.
In addition, imagine your slightest mistake will be magnified 10,000 times; with everyone watching, you have absolutely no margin whatsoever for error.
What kind of job do you do?
What do you do when failure is not an option? It sounds like the useless platitude of a kid’s soccer coach. But for Donald Trump, it is reality.
He simply can’t afford to fail. Failure would mean proving all his critics and…