BTRTN: Maybe Trump Can Shoot One Person on Fifth Avenue and Keep His Supporters. But 39,158?
Born To Run the Numbers sees Donald Trump's "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" tweet as the opening salvo of a heinous re-election strategy:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/04/btrtn-maybe-trump-can-shoot-one-person.html
Excerpts: " What is up with these crazy tweets? Allow me to translate from Donald-speak: 'Attention, fellow wingnuts! Don’t let those Democrats who are try to keep you healthy stop you from sacrificing your grandparents so that I can get the economy where it needs to be for my re-election!' This is the essence of Donald Trump’s plan for turning the pandemic into the argument for his re-election...
"Not that Trump doesn’t already have a lot going for him as we sail toward November. First and foremost, he retains the Republican herd immunity to fact, reality, and objective truth. This is the guy who once said that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote. Gross underestimate!! It now appears that he could be responsible for the deaths of a substantial percentage of the United States’ 39,158 coronavirus victims and not lose a single vote from his fiercely loyal if willfully ignorant voting bloc-heads..
"Hey, it’s a win-win-win for Donald. He gets to claim that he’s the one fighting for the middle class. He pastes the doctors and the Democrats as the big government establishment that is wrecking Trump’s 'perfect' economy. He can claim that as President, he deserves credit for any good news , but in punting all the hard decisions to governors, he has a convenient target for blame...
"The very conflict that Donald Trump is seeking to hype – a binary choice between extreme outcomes -- is a grievously flawed premise. It seeks to create an artificial zero sum proposition: that, on the one hand, in order for the economy to be strong, people must die; and yet, on the other hand, in order for a few lives to be saved, the economy must be forever ruined, incinerating the financial lives of millions of Americans. The advocates of 'health first' challenge that premise. They believe that the best path to the restoration of our economy begins by making the health of the American worker our greatest priority... "