In many ways both obvious and subtle, Donald Trump is precisely the wrong person to be president of the United States during the coronavirus crisis. Almost everything he does makes matters worse and imperils lives.
Over the weekend, Trump threatened to instigate civil war, if perhaps only through his own ignorance, by suggesting he might quarantine New York, New Jersey and parts of Connecticut. Of course the president has no such power under the law, and his administration pivoted instead to issuing a travel advisory. This is but another example of the way Trump, like other authoritarians, tests the norms and limits of law and society before finding a way to shatter them….
Read the full interview at: https://www.salon.com/2020/03/30/dr-abdul-el-sayed-this-pandemic-is-a-mass-trauma-that-will-change-american-society/?fbclid=IwAR1mtWCpQGQVniYF3rWyElgtyaScTrx35s3MS63raR5wJ_Ib4hPgrxFrvSs