| Get Jonathan Bernstein's newsletter every morning in your inbox. Click here to subscribe. Several detailed stories were published over the weekend outlining how slowly President Donald Trump reacted to the coronavirus outbreak. Inevitably, those kinds of stories wind up drawing attention to the personality traits that serve the president — and the nation — badly. Many of these are by now familiar: an inability or unwillingness to learn policy substance; a tendency to treat stuff he sees on TV or hears from his friends as at least as reliable as what experts are saying; a relentless focus on the daily news cycle. Yet what I think still isn't appreciated enough is Trump's appalling lack of management skills. As my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Timothy L. O'Brien has pointed out, Trump never learned to manage even moderately large organizations. The Trump Organization was pretty much whatever Trump wanted it to be. Attempting to run the federal government that way simply doesn't work. It means that no one is attending to the many things that don't come to the president's personal attention, allowing fiefdoms to develop in which those with bureaucratic skill get their way, uncoordinated with anything else happening in the government. Even when Trump does attempt to take charge and give orders he often doesn't get his way because the structure of the U.S. government means that laws, norms and interests all limit any president who tries to run things by diktat. The result is inevitably chaos. Add to that the general lack of interest in public policy that has characterized the Republican Party for at least the past decade, and you have an almost complete inability to govern. That's why the scariest articles over the weekend were the forward-looking ones, such as the Washington Post's story about the overlapping task forces and poor decision-making that have left the administration, at this late date, without anything resembling a strategy for how to move past the present lockdown. Trump seems to think what's needed is a single big decision, rather than a comprehensive plan for what comes next. Several such plans have been laid out in think-tank papers and news columns, but Trump doesn't seem to be aware of them and there's little sign that his administration is capable of moving ahead without him. Perhaps state and local governments will wind up beating Trump to the punch moving forward, just as many of them did in implementing extreme distancing measures. Perhaps that will somehow work out, if not well, at least not disastrously, with Trump eventually going along with developing best practices. I guess we can hope. 1. Rick Hasen on the real but relatively small risks of voting by mail — and how to minimize them. 2. David Karpf on the possibility of media manipulation this fall. Reasonable. I disagree to some extent on former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign; surely winning the support of Democratic party actors, something Biden did well, is part of the campaign. And at least in this case it appeared to determine media attention, as opposed to the 2016 Republican nomination cycle in which the media largely ignored party cues. 3. Paul Friesen and Chipo Dendere at Mischiefs of Faction on the pandemic in Zimbabwe. 4. Hans Hassell, John Holbein and Matthew Miles at the Monkey Cage on media bias. 5. Jane Mayer on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. 6. And Jamelle Bouie on Republicans and democracy. Get Early Returns every morning in your inbox. Click here to subscribe. Also subscribe to Bloomberg All Access and get much, much more. You'll receive our unmatched global news coverage and two in-depth daily newsletters, the Bloomberg Open and the Bloomberg Close. | 
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