To Donald Trump, coronavirus is just one more chance for a power grab | Robert Reich
Chaos in response to Covid-19 is no surprise. Nor is the unscrupulous operators' pursuit of profit and political advantage
The utter chaos in America's response to the coronavirus pandemic - shortages of equipment to protect hospital workers, dwindling supplies of ventilators and critical medications, jaw-dropping confusion over how $2.2tn of aid in the recent coronavirus law will be distributed - was perhaps predictable in a nation that prides itself on competitive individualism and hates centralized power.
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Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a columnist for Guardian US
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