Republicans Channel Obama in Coronavirus Response

0

MINOT, N.D. — We like to describe politics as the “marketplace of ideas.”

If only it were so.

A marketplace, in the economic sense, tends to be innovative. Competition drives a constant need to find the new and improved.

There is little innovation taking place in America’s political thinking. At least at the national level.

When we get bad news — like coronavirus, currently — the national political class reaches for their trusty we-gotta-do-something toolbox.

Continue reading…