Trump and Hannity
Donald Trump has given the Democrats a gift — if they are brave enough to use it.
Last Sunday, Donald Trump declared on Twitter: “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!”
This slogan, imported from the libertarian far right, signaled an important shift toward ending social distancing and “reopening” the economy, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread Trump’s mouthpieces at Fox News and elsewhere then began to parrot the same macabre and disturbing argument.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, told Fox News: “Let’s get back to living… And those of us that are 70-plus, we’ll take care of ourselves.”
Right-wing propagandist Glenn Beck told viewers of his BlazeTV show that Americans who are older should just go back to work and prepare to die: “Even if we all get sick, I would rather die than kill the country.”
I predict that Trump will get the Covid19 himself and then his comrades and they and their ideas will all die before people will submit to his type of authoritarianism. Corporations cannot get Coronavirus but only people can, and the Supreme Court will see that as a means to get rid of Trump because of his conduct during this crisis.
I don’t remember anyone ever saying insanity has its limits, except when it comes to dying. Congress and T. currently seem to be living in a ‘golden triangle’ that’s protected by the absurd, the willfully ignorant, and the pompous. At this point, it seems like anyone’s guess when the invisible wall will be crushed. Rand Paul may be the first crack..