>Hurricanes don't threaten government credibility the way successful terrorist attacks do.
This is one of those claims where the only reasonable answer is... "do they?" Bad disaster responses can make administrations look pretty bad.
This is one of those claims where the only reasonable answer is... "do they?" Bad disaster responses can make administrations look pretty bad.
Only bad disaster responses make administrations look pretty bad.
As a side note, I wonder if there's also a bias that human minds are more easily controlled than forces of nature. That may also come into play here.
Unfortunately, our society's attention span for weather tragedy is short and it is very unlikely any federally funded memorials will be built for victims of wildfires, floodings or hurricanes.
Whether disaster responses are considered good or bad depends largely on which narrative the media select.
Without doing the math with dates, do you intuitively remember what administration was in power during 9/11? How about Katrina? Benghazi? Hurricane Andrew?
W Bush, Also W Bush, Obama, and...Clinton?
Pretty close on the last one. It was the end of HW Bush's term in '92.
Even Donald Trump, though people polled think he handled the pandemic poorly, his 538 approval on Jan 1st was 42.6% and his approval now is 42.2%.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/boris-johnson-...