"Republican strategists have described the pandemic as a godsend..."

[kpete]

Here come the Covid midterms

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Republican strategists have described the pandemic to Nightly as a godsend, with its effects on both inflation and education, two of voters’ top concerns, as well as on Biden’s dismal public approval ratings.

GOP strategists are vowing to run on unpopular Covid restrictions even if they’ve been taken away. They gleefully predict that Biden’s party will pay a price in the midterm elections for, in their view, waiting too long.

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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2022/02/10/here-come-the-covid-midterms-00007865

[madaboutharry]

1. Psychopaths.

With over 900,000 dead Americans, millions having lost their businesses, the restaurant industry in shambles, teachers and health care professionals quitting in droves, inflation, and crazy anti-vaxxers threatening to do even more damage to the supply chain, these disgraceful human beings care about nothing other than power.

[NanceGreggs]

2. It was a 'godsend' to the GOP ...

... back in early 2020 because had Trump handled it correctly, it could have won him re-election.

Instead, he fucked it up - and we know how that played out.

[lagomorph777]

12. Yeah, I don't think most Americans have forgiven them for COVID yet.

It would have evaporated a year ago or more if they hadn't done everything possible to make it worse.

[onecaliberal]

3. They think killing 900,000 people is a godsend. Wtf is wrong with these garbage people.

[Deep State Witch]

4. No Wonder

They don't want their people to get vaxxed. They want to make Biden and the Dems look bad, no matter what the cost. People are literally dying to "own the libs".

[YorkRd]

5. Republicans only care about power to use to get more power

Chaos is their friend. They want government to fail.

[NCjack]

6. Here is good response:

"Should we tell the Evangelicals that as soon as they made a godless, lying, lawless, womanizing conman their messiah ...

a plague showed up?"

https://ifunny.co/picture/should-we-tell-the-evangelicals-that-as-soon-as-they-ZBKVp1Of8]

[rso]

7. Covid

It was also the main reason Don the Con was not re-elected, so it helped us as well.

[David__77]

8. It certainly helped them a lot in 2020.

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[YorkRd]

9. The "Shock Doctrine" is their most potent politics

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of "shock therapy". This centers on the exploitation of national crises (disasters or upheavals) to establish controversial and questionable policies, while citizens are too distracted (emotionally and physically) to engage and develop an adequate response, and resist effectively. The book advances the idea that some man-made events, such as the Iraq War, were undertaken with the intention of pushing through such unpopular policies in their wake.

Some reviewers criticized the book for making what they viewed as simplifications of political phenomena, while others lauded it as a compelling and important work. The book served as the main source of a 2009 documentary feature film with the same title directed by Michael Winterbottom.[1]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

[Boomerproud]

10. Correct or not this proves what useless pos political strategists are.

The most useless waste of space on the planet.

[FreepFryer]

11. If they run on that, we will cream them running on Jan 6 - esp locking a few up prior.

We have a strong narrative (Trump fucked up the pandemic response), and unlike the GOP, history and reality concurs with ours.

And of course, minus more lockdowns our GOTV can dominate.

[lagomorph777]

13. If we are smart, we should also run on COVID. We are the good guys; they are murderers.

Define them; don't let them define us.

[tanyev]

14. Pro-life, my a**.

[Mad_Machine76]

15. Disgusting group of people

I hope we have a good counter-message, but I'm not sure most people would agree with their position on COVID being a "godsend".

[EleanorR]

16. And the media reports on republican attempts to prolong it like it's some savvy political strategy

Rather than the immoral act that it is.