What a difference a month makes. In January, President Trump made the bold and tough decision to suspend travel from China after reports began to reveal the severity of the coronavirus outbreak there. For his efforts, he faced a barrage of criticism from leading Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media who labeled the ban extreme, premature, and (of course) racist.
While the administration was busy setting up a task force to assess and deal with the new risk, Democrats took time out from flogging their latest Russia conspiracy theory to criticize the lack of diversity in the experts Trump had chosen for the coronavirus group.
Now, as the coronavirus outbreak spreads to countries that exercised less foresight in clamping down on travel and other preventative measures than did the United States, the Democratic apparatus sees a political opportunity in anticipating a wider outbreak of the virus in the U.S. To that end, Democrats have now reversed course, hitting the administration for a lack of preparedness. Since all the other recent attempts to bring down Trump’s administration have crashed and burned so spectacularly, why not try to politicize a potential pandemic?