by Enzo » Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:48 pm
The Lincoln Project is terrific. They are a group of republicans who see Trump as the greatest threat to our democracy since 1812. People like Steve Schmidt. They number campaign strategists from campaigns like GW Bush or John McCain. They are clever, and when opportunities arise, they have video on the air within the day. SOme consider themselves still republicans, others left the party.
Refreshingly, they are not alone, there are numerous similar groups out there producing anti-Trump material. Even conservatives like George Will have endorsed Biden.
And as none of them are affiliated with candidates, they do not have to pull any punches, they hot at Trump hard.
And I have to disagree on one point, none of them really believe those other offenses were "protecting" liberty, or anything else. They see such arguments as nothing more than rationales for their actions. There is no moral basis from which they operate. It benefits DOnald Trump or it does not, that is as far as it goes with them.
And... Trump is now demanding universities stop teaching racial inequality programs. He wants instead new programs that teach "patriotic" history.
The CDC, bless them, tries to put out reasonable guidelines for dealing with COVID, but the latest is the White House has removed their content and replaced it with WH content.
Trump now has Dr. Scott Atlas as his main COVID advisor guy. With no background in epidemiology (he is a radiologist) he is all about herd immunity. He came from Fox News, and has the president's ear. Trump is backing away from any control measures. I may be wrong, but as I understand it, we need about 65% of us to be infected to get to some sort of herd immunity level. (And that is assuming immunity will even occur, as we already have people who have caught the disease more than once) If my math works:
330 million of us, 65% is 214 million. I believe we are currently suffering a little under 3% mortality? That means 6,000,000 or more people must die for this. The administration finds it acceptable to kill 6 million people in the name of its philosophy.
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