Red state govs flunk Trump's pandemic Jerk Test

It takes two to tango....and also to have the worst country response to pandemic in the world. In America those two are the president the governor in red states leading the pack on covid infections. Eighteen of the twenty states with the worst infection rate are red. Only purple Nevada and blue California make the top twenty.

It’s bad enough to have a president acting as a jerk on pandemic. The lack of a unified federal response has been catastrophic, from lack of testing, lack of PPE, lack of ventilators, to cheerleading the early and misguided re-opening of the economy while pandemic rages. But even a jerk at the top would not have worsened pandemic had every governor refused to follow the lead of a president determined to bring jerkiness to a new level of mendacity.

One governor who refused to take the Trump pandemic Jerk Test was our own Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker. Illinois’ infection rate ranks 37 of 50, allowing Illinois to re-open in a sensible, orderly fashion; proving a jerk in the White House can’t overcome a wise governor whose Jerk Test came up negative.