David Levine
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ORIGINAL: Brad H My biggest concern over the virus right now is that the people at the top have a history in selling high-price condos, real estate and country club memberships. Nice one. Trump actually has some positive qualities and skills to go along with his mind-numbingly terrible personality, but he was uniquely unqualified, in terms of temperament and judgement, to be the national leader during a pandemic. Looking back and I think everyone of the past Presidents, or even losing candidates, would have done a better job. Obama, Bush, both Clintons, McCain, Romney, any of them. As I said before the last election, we are asking a plumber to run an airline. Many conservatives over the past two decades have been asking for someone with business experience in the White House. On the surface, it seems to have been an abject failure at every turn. Running a country is nothing like running a business. You have to have political savvy and political willpower to run a country like the United States, effectively. He has neither. He made a killing off the image of saying, "you're fired". I think many business leaders would have done an admirable job though. I think Mark Cuban, Warren Buffet, obviously Bill Gates, or even Charles Koch would have done a much better job than Trump in pandemic management. IMO, it is Trump's personality that ruins his ability to lead. Being confrontational, intuitive and brash may have worked for Trump in business and reality TV, but it is not what the country needed in 2020. I would agree with that. If you have to choose a business person, at least choose one with a history of more successes than failures. A snake oil salesman appears to have been a bad choice. I love Buffet, Cuban or Gates. I would vote for any of those guys in a heartbeat. Absolutely. He's a guy whose biggest successes were as a front man with his dad doing all the work behind the scenes. Left to his own devices, he managed to bankrupt FIVE casinos. That should be nearly unpossible.
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