Pandemic Politics and Personal Destruction

President Bill Clinton’s team is credited with the line, “The end of the politics of personal destruction.” My take was they were saying: From here on, no-one in politics will blame anyone else for anything. Were they expecting to strike mute everyone in DC? “Personal destruction” was then and still remains Politics 101. When there’s no solution to a problem, blame somebody else for causing it.

This is exactly how it seems the politics of this coronavirus pandemic is playing out. While the rest of the country fights Trump’s “Chinese flu”, our nation’s capital has a different kind of sickness centered on avoiding responsibility while shedding blame on one’s political opponents.

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