change my mind cropped BRIGHT

Yeah, probably. It's like he scored an own goal.

he thought no matter what, the stock market was the most important thing to keep him in power, he's gotta revolve virus reaction around the market. should have been a 2 week lockdown every couple months, just enough time to match the incubation period, not this ongoing lockdown that nobody likes.

Assuming Trump is a rational political actor, I think that is exactly the calculation that went through his mind.

But we can never rule out the possibility that Trump is simply An Idiot.