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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
2. I think he was just surrounded with social darwinists who think not enough
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:54 AM
Nov 2020

Americans die every year. Especially liberals and minorities and anybody who isn't independantly rich when they retire. Also people who live in low lying areas or hurricane alley. Not fighting climate change is their fight against climate change: fewer survivors = fewer humans and all. No surprise Trump doubled down during the covid pandemic and pulled out of WHO. Apparently if it is philosophy it is not murder

regnaD kciN

(26,035 posts)
5. Not so much Social Darwinists as basic free-market capitalists...
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:41 AM
Nov 2020

When the pandemic first broke, Trump had two choices: a) to act like every other world leader, knock down the spread by locking down hard for a couple of months or more, and then cautiously re-open, being ready to roll back the re-opening measures if levels started to climb again, or b) bluff our way through, minimize the high levels of casualties, and hope to build herd mentality...I mean immunity. As I've said before, I think taking the first path may well have guaranteed his re-election. The thing is, it would also have meant massive government spending on stimulus plans and essentially guaranteeing neither workers nor businesses would fail because of it. Would it have worked? Probably. But those around him (doctrinaire Republicans all) worried that, if Americans saw how government action and spending on social welfare could get us through the worst imaginable crisis, they'd decide that they should be used more often. In short, people would develop a taste for "socialism," and the Republican Party and its principles would be slowly but surely ruined. So, they convinced Trump that taking the first option would "crash the economy" and thereby destroy his chances for re-election. It wouldn't have, of course, and probably would have enhanced them, but he believed their assessment, and went all-in on minimization and re-opening.

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
6. He did get pushed into closing down at the end of March after resisting it for weeks.
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 03:12 AM
Nov 2020

They he went hog wild with the openings and no mask policy in spring. When masks were suggested for the public, after health workers had a good supply, Trump was for it saying he'd make and sell Trump masks. Within days either astroturf or grass roots racists and social darwinists decided to be against masks and Trump followed.

Cha

(295,929 posts)
7. Rt. TY. That's the way it should
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 04:09 AM
Nov 2020

have done since the beginning and the only way to eradicate it.

Mahalo apple!

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