How Populism Impacts the Prevention of COVID-19 in the United States?

Abstract

AbstractCOVID-19 is a major infectious disease sweeping the world, and the United States is one of the most seriously affected countries. In this process, what is the main impact of populism on American leaders and people to guard against COVID-19? This paper mainly focuses on the medical prevention of COVID-19 and pure populism, and lacks joint research. Meanwhile, as the epidemic situation is still developing, there are still innovations in related research. This paper will further improve the research on preventing COVID-19, combine it with populist analysis, and explore the impact of populism on preventing COVID-19 in the United States. In terms of research methods, this article focuses on the media's propaganda on the situation of COVID-19 and its prevention and control measures, the specific policies and measures adopted by the Trump administration in relation to COVID-19 and the Republican Party's disregard. In conclusion, the populist government in the United States did not pay enough attention to COVID-19 from the very beginning but regarded it as a tool to get people’s support and play its political role. However, with the severe development of the epidemic, these behaviors led to the seriousness of COVID-19 in the United States. In addition, from the party point of view, Republicans’ relatively negative attitude and behavior of epidemic prevention have delayed the effective time of epidemic control.KeywordsCOVID-19PopulismThe United StatesRepublicansTrump