We live in scary times right now, and it is not the Chinese virus that I'm talking about.
How can a man like Trump closely court the religious base (Easter - a beautiful time/full churches bla bla bla) when he has a record like him? I just don't understand how the Christian community stands behind him.
Actually fairly logical, history shows us that severe economic depressions, as the virus is causing, lead to bombing your competitors to rubbleAll this whilst Trump was upgrading his military and aiming for hypersonic missile capability. Yet his base continues to rally behind him.
It makes perfect sense really. Considering all the other convoluted supernatural nonsense and magical thinking they believe,
Considering all the other convoluted supernatural nonsense and magical thinking they believe, swallowing Trump's noise is a piece of cake.
While he’s had the NRA and assorted militias on board for a long time, locked and loaded, he’s not fully weaponised the fundamentalist vote yet but I think he’s on the brink of it. Crudely welding his “cure worse than the disease/ get back to work America!” onto “wouldn’t it be beautiful to see the churches filled on that beautiful day? really beautiful”.I think that is much less widely appreciated outside of the US when people look on in amazement at what the people will accept. The wilder views held by many groups, particularly the religious fundamentalists or just plain mentalists, pre-date anything Trump drones on about. He's a lightning rod for all sorts of previously disparate groups.
There seems to be some evidence that the severity of the Covid-19 experience is related to how much virus you are exposed to. So, small viral load: no, or mild symptoms. Big viral load: acute respiratory distress.While he’s had the NRA and assorted militias on board for a long time, locked and loaded, he’s not fully weaponised the fundamentalist vote yet but I think he’s on the brink of it. Crudely welding his “cure worse than the disease/ get back to work America!” onto “wouldn’t it be beautiful to see the churches filled on that beautiful day? really beautiful”.
Is he just bluffing or is the commander and chief ordering religious mass gatherings to take place during a pandemic?
If Trump allows mass gathering of his base at this time, I can see him going the way of Ceausescu or Mussolini when it all goes tits up.
Ditto for Bolsonaro.