The uproar about the Corona virus has been showing the Trump Administration at its best. Trump set Pence up to fail as the Corona Virus Tsar so he could ditch Pence closer to election time. But the blame is not sticking to Pence because Trump cannot, as one might expect, keep his mouth shut, so it’s he and not Pence who is making all the memorably stupid remarks about Corona virus. His dummies, Kelly Ann, Stephanie Grisham, Rush Limbaugh, and creatures in Congress, are repeating whatever Trump the Ventriloquist says.

How, then, can I say that the Corona virus is bringing out the best of Trump and Co.? I can because we’re seeing them at their best, doing the best they can. We all hoped that if we said our prayers, avoided cracks in the sidewalk, and kept our fingers crossed we might get through Trump I-IV without a major crisis that would demand some real competence from Trump and the other characters in his comic strip. Well our luck has run out. We’re dealing with a pandemic and we’re dealing, at least some of us, with our chagrin at having elected and supported an industrial-grade liar and loser.