<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics Daily: Even the Pandemic Is Partisan
Some states are imposing serious lockdowns, others are being far more lax, and others have fallen somewhere in between. Plus: Trump wasn’t the only one who got it wrong.
by Kaila Philo
Mar 24, 2020
3 minutes
It’s Tuesday, March 24. “The economy can recover. Once a person is dead, that’s it,” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told our White House correspondent Peter Nicholas, in response to the president’s suggestion that the country reopen soon.
In the rest of today’s newsletter: Red states and blue states are experiencing different pandemics (and enacting different responses). Plus: It wasn’t just the Trump administration that got the COVID-19 response wrong.
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