Re: Democrat 2020
A little thing (and I do literally mean little) showed up in the ointment that Trump supporters slather on their asses and each other---SARS-CoV-2. Don't think for a minute that the Dems won't keep harping on Donny Baby's abysmal response to a threat he couldn't bullshit his way through. And I would suspect that as the spring wears on into summer, voters (especially all of those millions who will then be on the unemployment line) will be spoon-fed all the articles written about how Donny Baby eliminated the NSC's Pandemic Response team in 2018, and followed that up by slashing the CDC's budget. Whether he was correct or not, the general public will buy in that it hurt our COVID-19 response, IMHO.I dont understand how you could think this isnt setting up to be a slam dunk for trump.
Couple that with his erratic blustering that "one day it's like a miracle, it will disappear"; or "the current number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is going very substantially down, not up"; or his economic advisor Kudlow saying “We have contained this,” and “It’s pretty close to airtight"; or on 27 Feb when Trump claimed “the 15, within a couple of days, is going to be down to close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done"; or his response to Nancy Messonier's (director of the NCIRD) statement that it wasn't a matter of if, but when community spread of COVID-19 became prevalent in the US---“I don’t think it’s inevitable,” he said in response to a reporter’s question. “It probably will. It possibly will. It could be at a very small level or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens, we’re totally prepared.”
We'll see how much American voters agree with his assessment that "we're totally prepared" come November.
Amen to that, except that as Monty put it, "you can't bullshit a virus." So the next best thing is to deflect peoples anger at our unpreparedness in the direction of China by calling this the "Chinese Virus." It may not be the wisest thing to do to poke a wounded dragonTrump goads opponents into the kind of mud-slinging fight he is comfortable with, and truly believes that an angry/upset opponent is the one he can best negotiate with/take advantage of. The Dems have been playing that game.
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