PLUS: The Trump Party's Festival of Fear

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Denier-in-chief: Trump, COVID, and Climate Change ([link removed])
by Paul Bledsoe

It is a tale of two worlds. In Real World, the COVID scourge continues to inflict massive human suffering and economic costs on the American people. More than 177,000 Americans have died. Over 5.7 million have been infected. These are by far the largest tolls in the world. No wonder the U.S. economy is now a basket case.

More than 22 million jobs were lost in April alone, and many more in March and May, yet only 42% of those jobs have returned. Even with so many jobless Americans waiting to go back to work, job growth has slowed with July employment less than half that of June ([link removed]) , and August looking weaker still. This is the worst job market since the Great Depression. Yet after more than almost nine months, the Trump administration still does not have a coherent or effective national COVID-19 strategy, and Senate Republicans went on vacation rather than pass unemployment extensions for millions of jobless Americans.
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The Trump Party's Festival of Fear ([link removed])
by Will Marshall

The 2020 Republican National Convention ostensibly opened last night, but few Republican leaders or ideas traditionally associated with the party were on display. Instead, viewers entered into the fevered world of the GOP’s replacement: the Trump Party.

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Building American Resilience: A Roadmap for Recovery After COVID-19 ([link removed])
by Will Marshall

Read PPI President Will Marshall's introduction to the new Building American Resilience series. Each report in the series tackles a different aspect of American recovery from the pandemic, laying out a blueprint to the construction of an ambitious future.

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Make Electoral Democracy More Resilient ([link removed])
by Colin Mortimer

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the fragility of the United States electoral voting system. Polling places, which are often densely packed indoor spaces, represent an acute public health danger. Yet, many states do not have the infrastructure in place to adapt to this situation, and it has thrown the health of Americans and our democratic institutions into doubt.

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Spur Digital Manufacturing in America ([link removed])
By Michael Mandel

Resilience is the ability to react quickly to unexpected events. Market economies are inherently resilient because they are decentralized. But by outsourcing too much production to the rest of the world, the U.S. has traded much of its flexibility and resilience for somewhat lower short-run prices.


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