The way some of the left are reacting to the probability (not a done deal yet) that Biden will be the nominee going up against Trump this fall reveals a sectarian spirit that has bedeviled too much of the left for a long time. Too bad.

From NYT.: “Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, said he was skeptical of Mr. Sanders’s ability to repeat his 2016 Michigan win, or his chances elsewhere in the Midwest, because Democrats this year, who singularly want to beat Mr. Trump, are less open to revisiting arguments over trade or Social Security.

“Voters, astonishingly, have taken over the nominating process,” he said. “Biden did well among blacks, suburban whites and white working-class voters because they want him to take on Trump. That was so powerful on Super Tuesday.”

By the end of the day, we will find out if Greenberg is right.

Joe Biden wasn’t my first choice, but it’s still a little weird to hear people on the left smugly, almost happily, predicting, before the fight is engaged, that Joe Biden, if he is the nominee, will either lose, if nominated, or will sit on his hands and do nothing, if elected. I’m glad that Democratic primary voters don’t pay any attention to this sort of nonsense.

If Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Trump lies and fiddles in his own way as a virus spreads and wreaks its havoc on people’s health, lives, and much else here and across the world. His complete unfitness for office is endangering people’s lives. And like any crisis it strikes unevenly. By now, any rational president would have declared a national emergency and thrown the resources of the federal government into action.

Larry Summers makes clear that much more than lowering already low interests rates is imperative now. But here’s the problem: Trump and his crony Republicans in Congress are doing nothing in the face of a national emergency. If anything, they are obstructing a robust response.