.MaddowBlog: Did Jared Kushner and his team see the virus as a blue-state problem?
this morning,"[T]reating the coronavirus as a blue-state problem was a fairly widespread approach in the West Wing."
This is indefensible, but not altogether surprising. When the scope and scale of the crisis first started coming into focus, the hardest hit states were also"blue" states: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Washington, et al. The fear in many circles was that Donald Trump's White House would be more passive in its response because it wouldn't much care what happened in states that didn't support the Trump/Pence ticket.
The latest reporting suggests those fears were well grounded. Indeed, it appears to paint a picture in which the Republican administration might have at least tried to respond more effectively to the crisis if, say, Oklahoma and Alabama were suffering in March the way New York and New Jersey were.
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