Who’s to blame for the catastrophe of COVID-19? In 2020, President Donald Trump threw out the Obama administration’s pandemic response plans. He dismantled the National Security Council directorate for global health, security and biodefense, which was charged with preparing for the kind of pandemic that experts knew was inevitable. When COVID-19 began to kill Americans, Trump let the deadly infection spread. His “leadership” consisted of mocking those who wore masks, and instigating misguided Republicans around the nation to loudly protest and defy the shutdowns necessary to slow down the moun…