GOP Governors Have Betrayed the Public Trust

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GOP Governors Have Betrayed the Public Trust

August 20, 2021 at 7:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 127 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/08/20/gop-governors-have-betrayed-the-public-trust/

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Michael Garson: “The challenge for the governors is that public health is not the same as other issues. Their actions will lead, directly and predictably, to deaths in their states. This constitutes a betrayal of public trust so grave — a violation of moral responsibilities so depraved — that I am not sure there is a word for it. Selling the lives of your fellow citizens to a foreign power is treason. What is the proper description of selling the lives of your fellow citizens to a crazed political interest group?”

“The problem for the Republican Party is that one of the central demands of a key interest group is now an act of sociopathic insanity. Some of the most basic measures of public health have suddenly become the political equivalent of gun confiscation.”

“It’s as if the activist wing of the GOP decided that municipal trash pickup is a dangerous socialist experiment. Or chlorine in public pools is an antifa plot. There can be no absolute political right to undermine the health and safety of your community. Or else community has no meaning.”

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1. It finally occurred to me yesterday. I don't know why it took so long,

but as I looked at a photo of a woman collapsed on the carpet in a Florida library, I recognized the end game these Repub governors are going for. They want huge outbreaks, they are trying to get the pandemic to heat up so bad that shutdowns are inevitable, as well as the economic fallout from them. They are trying to paper over the awful memory of trump's term by being able to say, "See! Biden has failed! This is worse than --" etc, etc. They don't care how many people they kill to do it, because no one is bothering to stop them. Very few have even called them out. Good on Michael Gerson, but I don't think his op-ed went far enough.