Trump is bringing death to Red America https://t.co/1zO2D3gTXa pic.twitter.com/bSO18yzQyx— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 5, 2020
By ignoring the disease so long as it spread only in big Blue Cities, Trump allowed it to penetrate rest of country. And then by encouraging rest of country to open before testing/tracing/isolation regime Trump is converting penetration to outbreak https://t.co/1zO2D3gTXa pic.twitter.com/SRKecAQpPi— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 5, 2020
It's coming to Tennessee too pic.twitter.com/Jf6c9PoaXt— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 5, 2020
Well, he loves them. And he has lots of money for them; provided he can kill the payroll tax and Obamacare and a few dozen other things he's demanding first. And besides, there'll still be a few people left to vote for him, right? All he needs is the electoral college votes.
My greatest fear is that he will do what Stalin did, use the media to gull The People into craven, cowardly adoration of him even as he kills them. He will certainly have both the intentional help of media but also the reliable habits of deference to Republican-fascists in the media to help him with that. Stalin was mourned by people who he terrorized and enslaved and murdered. Even in the occupied countries of Eastern Europe. I don't think we can count on the American People being any less vulnerable, we haven't managed to get rid of him, after all. We haven't gotten rid of the electoral college, either, despite its uniform evil in our political history.
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