Arizona deserves better than McSally's pandemic performance
U.S. Sen. Martha McSally serves in an Arizona Senate seat that is hallowed ground, a seat made iconic by two giants of the Senate – Barry Goldwater and John McCain – in the course of 60-plus years of service.
It’s not for me to suggest how McSally’s predecessors would have approached a global pandemic. But it’s hard to imagine either of these independent-minded figures would have chosen the path their appointed successor has: protecting President Trump at all costs, participating in his charade of avoiding responsibility and pretending that “the buck” stops in Beijing or anywhere but the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Arizona rises daily, as does the number of times Trump turns to a familiar script to divert attention from his own failures: the very president who now scapegoats China just months ago actually parroted Chinese propaganda over and over, instead of defending America from an insidious virus that has cost us lives and brought our economy to a halt.
Surely, McSally knows better – and Arizona surely deserves better.
No mistake in the US response to COVID-19 bears the president’s fingerprints more than his mismanagement of the China front in the battle against a pandemic. From his early refusal to engage the Chinese government in the search for facts, to his failed travel ban, all the way through his labeling COVID-19 as “the Chinese virus,” Trump’s diplomatic malpractice has cost us time, lives, and jeopardized our economy – trading judgment for bluster at every turn.
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