Why has the Republican response to the pandemic in the USA been so mind-bogglingly disastrous?

This article argues that the republican party not only generates anti-scientific conspiracy theories, but actually believes them, and this will only get worse when a Democratic leader is elected.

One German expert told the Washington Post that Germany had used American studies to design an effective response, which the U.S. somehow couldn’t implement. American “scientists appeared to have reached an adequate assessment of the situation early on, but this didn’t translate into a political action plan,” observed another.