Bad bosses actively work against their people doing the job the organization charged them with. Good bosses, in astoundingly short supply, provide employees with resources to do their job, coach and mentor them, provide feedback for improvement and reward them for a job well done.
Politics is about winning to the exclusion of everything else. Positions can shift on a dime. Balanced budgets and free trade were once core Red Team positions.
The United States has a political problem impeding a competent pandemic response. "Reading the manuals" one might come across a gold standard pandemic response.
However skilled Trump is in shaming scientists and expert medical professionals, that is not on the gold standard pandemic approach
Update 8-13-20: Trump found a medical advisor more to his liking. Dr. Scott Atlas is a senior fellow for a conservative think tank, not an infectious disease/public health expert. Atlas won't challenge Trump's lies and misrepresentations.
