Campaign has been like no other

There’s never been an American presidential campaign like this one. In fact, there may not have been a campaign like this one in any other country.

Let’s count the ways. First there was the pandemic. Or did the protests and riots come first? Next there was the death of a respected Supreme Court justice. Oh, and then there was President Donald Trump, the pandemic-denier, coming down with COVID-19.

The atmosphere is simmering with so much controversy, so many views, so much news, that it’s really hard to sort out what’s more important and what will happen next.

Right now, focus is on the latest medical bulletins on Trump. He says he’s fine, don’t worry about it, but then in February he was saying don’t worry about COVID-19. Now that he’s got it, he might be expected to be saying, I was wrong, I’ve seen the light and I know anyone can get it any time.

But he still seems not to have fully grasped the meaning of what he and millions of others are suffering.

He’s not, as his doctor said, “out of the woods” just yet. Considering all the medical attention he’s getting, you have to believe he’ll be OK, that in a week or two he’ll be declared totally “cured,” and he’ll be looking forward to his next debate with Joe Biden, the former vice president who’s still favored to get elected president a few weeks from now.

How could it be, people have been asking for some time, that the richest, supposedly most advanced country in the world, could have about the world’s worst record in combating the pandemic?

The problems, however, go far beyond simply the disease. While the stock market has been doing quite well, millions of Americans are out of work or under-employed, and many of them are facing the terrors of a winter with inadequate food and shelter

he Republican Trump and his Democratic foes have failed abysmally on funding another round of emergency funding for millions on millions who desperately need it. Now