On Trump’s Coronavirus Response and the Future of the Republican Party

Over at The National, David Frum has a good piece on Donald Trump’s coronavirus response and the future of the Republican Party.

Here’s one paragraph:

It’s time for Republicans to consider a third choice of reform and renewal: to listen to more moderate and pragmatic voices on issues of the environment and health care. Republicans fought for a decade to repeal the healthcare guarantee of Obamacare. It’s time to accept that it is here to stay. Republicans called climate change a hoax as they called coronavirus a hoax. It is time to trust scientists rather than industry lobbyists. Republicans have wasted 20 years ignoring and defying the 21st century, offering xenophobia and nostalgia in place of sensible government from the centre-right.