There’s no football. Grandparents can’t leave their home. Kids aren’t going to school.— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 13, 2020
Trump has wrecked the American way of life.
It's the utter predictability of it all that's just exhausting. pic.twitter.com/9x5j94pRwk— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 12, 2020
Soon to be replayed at a school near you. I'm sorry to be such a Cassandra about schools, but covid-19 doesn't give a shit for your exhaustion or your need to go back to work or your desire to keep your kid's education going or for your kid's social life with her friends. If we had a functioning government we wouldn't be facing these issues, but we don't. And you know what? We are the sovereign. We are to blame. There's no use blaming anyone else, and all we can do right now is replace the current management in November, but even that won't take effect until late January of next year. So we have to hunker down and ride it out and wait for it all to get better, but gambling our children's lives on it is the worst idea possible.
We have to take responsibility for this, and my experience is responsibility is the last thing most Americans want to take on. Sure, Trump has "wrecked the American way of life," but that's a campaign slogan. We are responsible for the lives of our children, and we can't protect them and "return to normal" when normal is not even vaguely available.
If we had a normal president—Obama or Bush, Jeb or Marco or Ted or Carly, Hillary or, yes, Bernie—we would have contained and rolled back the virus, and businesses, schools, and college football would be reopening. Trump alone could have mishandled the pandemic so disastrously.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 13, 2020
We have to ride this out. We don't have to surrender to it.
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