Gov. Doug Ducey is in over his head.

It’s not his fault. He got into politics with the idea that he could run state government like a business, and voters fell for it.

And who knows, maybe it would have worked if there were no actual crisis to face. If nothing came along that put people’s lives at risk.

But the coronavirus pandemic did come along. And dealing with a health crisis is not like running a business.

And Ducey has not been up to the task.

And he hasn’t surrounded himself with people who can deal with it.

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Instead he has followed the disastrous example of President Donald Trump in dealing with it.

And so we’ve gone from the governor’s claim in May that we are “clearly on the other side of this pandemic.”

To his claim earlier this month that “we are not in a crisis situation.”