How putting “America First” pushes us last...

This past Tuesday, Trump held a big meeting demanding that schools reopen physically in the fall, in spite of a surging pandemic through much of the United States.

He even threatened to cut funding if schools wouldn’t reopen.

One thing the entire White House, including the president, the Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other officials haven’t even bothered to check was what countries like Taiwan, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France and South Korea, among other that re-opened their schools since lock-down have experienced and learned, before even talking of opening the floodgates in August.

This is the ugly form of “American Exceptionalism” at work, ignoring experience or best practices by other countries that unlike America, have their act together, and going it alone. This is one big reason, why our management of the Covid-19 has been the worst in world so far. Good job, Mr. Trump!