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There was an interesting analogy by Nate Cohen.  Finish the following analogy:

Covid-19 is to World War II as Trump is to:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1281567483493847043[/tweet]

His answer was Chamberlin.

If you're struggling to make sense of how Trump has fallen so far, and how he could fall further, then take this analogy further: imagine that this was the president's handling of an actual armed conflict?

COVID is *not* WW2. But the comparison is illuminating. His early comments read like Chamberlain. His fights with govs are like haggling over whether Hawaii should buy defenses for Pearl Harbor. His economy position is like being worried that rationing will hurt civilian economy.

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[BostonCard]

There was an interesting analogy by Nate Cohen.  Finish the following analogy:

Covid-19 is to World War II as Trump is to:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1281567483493847043[/tweet]

His answer was Chamberlin.

If you're struggling to make sense of how Trump has fallen so far, and how he could fall further, then take this analogy further: imagine that this was the president's handling of an actual armed conflict?

COVID is *not* WW2. But the comparison is illuminating. His early comments read like Chamberlain. His fights with govs are like haggling over whether Hawaii should buy defenses for Pearl Harbor. His economy position is like being worried that rationing will hurt civilian economy.

BC