(04-02-2020, 04:15 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(04-02-2020, 04:08 PM)Gabe Wrote: For me, it's upsetting because of the obvious (dow performance) but primarily upsetting because this entire situation was not necessarily wholly avoidable, but definitely could have been mitigated early on - preventing the fallout in which we are all experiencing. This goes into my earlier posts (about a week to two weeks ago) that are critical of this administration's very lax approach at a) containing COVID-19 and b) combating it - while taking a month to downplay its seriousness. I don't lay the blame at Trump's feet for COVID-19, but this was a top-down failure at controlling a controllable situation - despite claims otherwise. 

However, given those things and the now mind-boggling 6.5m unemployment claims, approval ratings remain in the 40s. Not going to point out which way RCP leans in its approach to data aggregation, but more in the sense that it's upsetting in that leadership approval ratings predictably jump in general during times of crisis - more of a snapshot of the range of general critical thought in this country.

That's why I view it as upsetting, JIB. Not because I'm an anti-trumper. You recently asserted that I was sensible. I like to think that I am, but probably am not as much as I think I'd like to think I am. Even so, I try to give benefit of the doubt as much as possible. I've put a lot of critical thought into this situation, especially with it directly affecting my family (physically as well as financially).

This situation was avoidable, but at the expense of the president being called a racist and xenophobe.