Len Zwelling

The most important job of the President of the United States is to keep the people of America safe. Until the last few weeks, a compelling argument could have been made that Mr. Trump had failed to do that. The coronavirus was credited with over 180,000 deaths, 6 million cases and untold numbers of business failures with the attendant stress on small business owners, many displaced workers, and their families. The economy, once thriving a mere six months ago, was going into the tank (although the stock market was still on the rise). Things for average Americans were looking bleak and the Democrats were doing a pretty good job hanging that on Mr. Trump.

The coronavirus has changed everything from the Olympics to the national political conventions. But did it need to wreck the economy and why did it?

There were basically two paths that the United States could have taken once the coronavirus escaped China and made it to our shores.

Choice one was to…

Balance: Have We Lost It? By Leonard Zwelling          It’s August 26. There’s a massive hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico threatening the Texas and Louisiana coast. The coronavirus is still a threat to many Americans. Over 178,000 have died as of this writing. While the stock market may be doing fine, many Americans are

In The End, It’s A Referendum on Trump. Vote Accordingly By Leonard Zwelling          Any time an incumbent president seeks a second term, the main issue of that campaign is the quality of the job the incumbent has done. This is as it should be. It gives the people their chance to weigh in on

The New Trump Republicans vs. The Old Biden Democrats By Leonard Zwelling          For most of my life, I have been surrounded by Democrats. My parents were Democrats even as Ike kept winning elections in the 1950s. Kennedy and Johnson were both considered successful presidents in the mid-1960s. It was only later in my life

Socialism By Leonard Zwelling          I have been getting hammered by my conservative friends on a host of issues. First, they resent the fact that I do not show enough deference to the current occupant of the Oval Office. He may be a despicable human being, they admit, but he is the president, they aver.

Israel And The UAE: A Debt To Trump Repaid By Leonard Zwelling          In a bit of good news, The New York Times rushed out an article on Thursday morning, August 13 that announced the signing of a series of bilateral agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. This caught the diplomatic world by

What If The Adults Had Been In Charge? By Leonard Zwelling          At this point, if there is one thing that both Democrats and Republicans can agree upon is that the response to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has been mediocre, at best. Our infection rate is high. Our death

A Covid Break In Ohio By Leonard Zwelling          Twenty-three consecutive weeks in Houston. It was a record for me. One hundred sixty-one consecutive days without being on an airplane. I think that’s a record, too. We had flown into Bush Intercontinental on February 29, 2020 from Palm Springs as the news of the coronavirus

The Common Factor: Coronavirus And The Beirut Explosion–Negligence By Leonard Zwelling          Back and forth. The arguments come to me through my email and on the blog. It’s all Trump’s fault. Biden is senile and would be a disaster. The coronavirus is just a bad flu year and we should have kept everything open. No,