President Trump's turbulent response to coronavirus By John Zogby

President Trump tried to conjure up his inner James Buchanan earlier this week. Let the crisis worsen then run out the clock.

But by midweek, he had no choice but to wrestle with reality, instead of ignoring it and once again attacking everyone else.

His efforts were mainly good: emergency small business loans, relief for hourly workers and those temporarily displaced, family leave payments, and so on.

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But there are limits to Trump's 'America First' theme. Not clueing in the leaders of EU nations beforehand on his travel limits and making us all guess who was affected was just bad form.

Presidents are supposed to lead, not fight, then follow. I join millions of people in thanking God we have Dr. Anthony Fauci. He is not only a voice of reason, but he knows what he knows.

And perhaps more importantly, he knows what he doesn't know and searches. Somehow, that gives me a lot more hope.

 John Zogby (@TheJohnZogby) is the founder of the Zogby Poll and Zogby companies, including John Zogby Strategies, and author of We Are Many We Are One: Neo-Tribes and Tribal Analytics in the 21st Century America.