This year, they will have to accept it - 1) 70% of the people do not want to die in order to vote; 2) R's are on their way and if they look reasonable, they are hoping to save their position, trying to be pro-active, in spite of party edicts; 3) R's don't want to add the moniker Party of Death along with The Party of Putin, trying to save their party.
Oh well, too bad, so sad. Of ALL the things they have done in the past, R's will not be able to live down the out and out FUBAR response to not only this pandemic but also future ones.
Watch 60 Minutes from Sunday - Scott Pelley (?) talks to the Scientist who has been studying which bats and why bats spread so virus' so easy in China with years long negotiations with Chinese gov't to study in labs in China. Very informative. CBS has gone the Columbia Entertainment Channel the last could of years, but at least we can some even-handed information from 60 Minutes. Every other "news" program is hyperbolic feel good stories, in order to chew up air time from actual news. If you don't look good in HD makeup, out you go, regardless of your decades of experience.
We need a Mike Wallace for this Age. He would go up to the actual people being investigated and ask them fairly hard hitting questions. It used to strike fear in people's hearts when the words 60 Minutes is in the lobby asking for an interview. We need that now more than ever. Yes, I know, Social Distancing. We are resourceful, we can figure out someway other than internet tubes.