A group of former Republican political operatives have launched the Lincoln Project to kick Trump out of office in November. If you haven't seen their ads...they're pretty effective. The gut punch line in this ad at the link is that under Trump, America is "weaker and sicker and poorer." While there are plenty of leftist purists who deride efforts to capture disaffected Republicans and Republican leaners, because it will drag the Democratic Party to the center when they are trying to drag it to the left, you have to acknowledge that the GOP has always known its way around an attack ad.
The following is likely to be the state of play in November: America will be in the grips of an economic depression, as GDP is contracting rapidly. Since Trump doesn't care about people, only his reelection, he is defying his own guidelines to re-open the economy while maintaining a layer of deniability while idiot governors like DeSantis and Kemp take the immediate heat to fulfill his campaign strategy of "reviving the economy." Most Americans oppose efforts to reopen retail and restaurant businesses. Trump and his advisers live within the closed information ecosystem of Fox News and OANN, so the smattering of sparsely attended protests carried on by Teanderthals and anti-Vaxxer nutjobs carry a disproportionate weight.
Trump is basically going to kill people in order to get the economy going, and the tragic part is that it won't even work. People are not going to go out to restaurants and movie theaters and sports, unless they are part of Cult 45. The "return to work" plans in Georgia, Florida and elsewhere are designed to force people off unemployment insurance, which will have additional depressive effects on the economy as they have no money to spend. So businesses will "reopen" but no one will patronize them and waiters and similar job holder will be forced off UI, because they are refusing to work at a job that might kill them.
That is Trump's "strategy" for getting the economy going.
The other thing to note is that we are just beginning to see the spread of Covid-19 in a lot of places. While the overall US numbers are steady or declining, most of that is because of the falling cases in NY, NJ and CT. In most other states, cases are actually increasing. And increasing, in this case, usually means we are seeing a wave cresting rather than receding. States are reopening INTO THE FACE OF THIS CRESTING.
The GOP is trying to kill you to save their stock portfolios.
Weaker, sicker and poorer, indeed.
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