In the United States, the Democrats have been promulgating a simple message since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Donald Trump is to blame. Whether argued subtly — through accusations of ineptitude, carelessness, or denial — or overtly — with Joe Biden saying that Trump was responsible for every single COVID-19 death, and that had Biden been president, not one of these deaths would have occurred — this strategy has been central to their policies and messaging.
If you were to pay attention to this rhetoric, you would believe that the United States is being hit harder than any other country in the world, that the United States has the worst rankings in any COVID-19 related data table, and that American leadership (at least, Republican leadership) is the sole cause of such unique and isolated failure.
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