This exchange from public health experts featured in the blockbuster NY Times piece about Trump mismanagement of the crisis is just devastating:
“Pilots can tell you what happens when a crew makes decisions based on intuition rather than what their instruments are telling them. And we continue to push the stick forward …”
Unfortunately, the “pilot” is Donald Trump, a deranged man with no training who can’t read the instruments anyway, who took over the plane and refused to listen to the people in the control tower who were trying to talk him through it.
They keep saying he’s relying on “intuition.” He is not. He has no “intuition” about running the country in the best of times but in a crisis, it’s clear that he’s simply flipping a coin or making decisions based upon magical thinking. That’s not intuition. It’s flying blind and hoping your luck would hold out.