Friday, April 17, 2020

We Have a Plague, Now Trump Wants a Civil War

So Trump is now inciting armed resistance against the stay at home orders put in place by Democratic governors.  Orders that have saved lives.  Something about which Trump doesn't give a damn.  Trump has done nothing to fight the coronavirus, but he is willing to go to war with the very people who are working to stop the spread of the virus.  
...he’s signaling that he’s on their side, which is not only stupid from a public health standpoint, it's absolutely dangerous from a political standpoint. There are certain viewpoints that history tells us are perilous when they begin circulating in our politics, and this president* has managed to mix up two of them. He created an extreme devolution of federal authority to the states, and now he’s using the power of the presidency to incite resistance to the very situation his nonfeasance created in the first place. In theory, it’s like there were four sides to the Civil War. It’s a recipe for a domestic version of the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
Believe it on not, 42% of Americans support the job this guy is doing.  

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