Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Expect Cheating: Big Cheating

Don't count your chickens before they hatch, my grandparents used to insist, and they were right. But we're seeing signs of a massive movement away from Donald Trump in the 2020 election. 

We're seeing some weird stuff. Golfer Rory McIlroy says that, given Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, he'll never play golf with Trump again. And the Lancet, the prestigious medical journal published in the US, the UK, and India, says it's time for Americans to get rid of Trump.
Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.
The Lancet also directly called out Trump for lying about the World Health Organization's response to the coronavirus outbreak. Your can read the brief statement here. You could make too much of issue, but let's put it this way:

Suppose Barack Obama had criticized a major international organization on demonstrably false pretenses. How would people have reacted?
 
Well, that's different. But seriously, Republicans are doing what they always do when things are tough: trying to suppress the vote. They're investing heavily in it because they know that the more people vote, the worse their chances get. The only way to beat them, Paul Waldman says, is to keep talking about it, keep being outraged that they seriously don't want people to vote, and--as it happened in Wisconsin--just turn out in overwhelming numbers
 

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