Robert Higgs on Trump's handling of the coronavirus

From the very beginning of his presidency, Trump has made important economic and social decisions -- about trade, about immigration, about law enforcement -- entirely in the service of his insane nationalist obsession. Now he is dealing with the coronavirus disease in the same way, using this crisis as a pretext for harming foreigners for the sake of harming them and for fostering U.S. companies. The man is a monster and an idiot rolled into one. If anyone ever deserved to be kept away from supreme power, he is the one who ought to have been.

~ Robert Higgs, Facebook post, March 12, 2020