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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump's Lies Are Killing His Supporters as COVID Starts to Sweep Rural America [View all]
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https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-lies-are-killing-his-supporters-as-covid-starts-to-sweep-rural-america/Trumps Lies Are Killing His Supporters as COVID Starts to Sweep Rural America
By William Rivers Pitt,
Truthout
Published April 16, 2020
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What happens when this thing really and truly burns through rural America? It has already begun, and because of all those Trump supporters standing shoulder to shoulder at capitols and churches to shout their defiance of science and the Deep State into the virus-polluted air, it will get worse.
It will get worse within days, if the pattern holds, and there is no reason to expect otherwise. The match has been lit. In two weeks, these rural areas which have lost so many of their their hospitals thanks to decades of conservative budget cuts are going to be locked into the same nightmare the urban areas have been dealing with since March, but with far less medical infrastructure prepared to confront it.
How many people who listened to their president and his Fox News mouthpieces, who jammed the churches because the president said it was safe, will be dead by June?
It begs the deadly, wretched question: How many Trump voters are going to die between now and November? How many people who listened to their president and his Fox News mouthpieces, who jammed the Michigan capitol steps and the megachurches on Easter because the president said it was safe, will be dead by June?
Quite a lot, I fear. This is the very living essence of tragedy and farce. Trump has labored mightily to convince his people that this is all some sort of ruse to keep him from being re-elected, and millions of those people have swallowed it whole.
This is a snake eating its own tail in real time while the snake-handler-in-chief cheers it on except we are not talking about snakes. These are people, all of whom are somebodys children, many of whom have children. They trusted Donald Trump, and that will get many of them killed while subsequently prolonging a pandemic that has already infected 2 million lives worldwide.
I wonder if they will still think it was worth it come the summertime. I wonder if they will want a word with Mr. Trump once the virus he called a hoax has its way with them.
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Trump's Lies Are Killing His Supporters as COVID Starts to Sweep Rural America [View all]
babylonsister
Apr 2020
OP
if the states open up as the repugs want next month it's going to be a disaster
samsingh
Apr 2020
#7
The ones I care about are the frontline workers and innocents that they could spread to,
PunkinPi
Apr 2020
#43
Of course, and I have no doubt that the nazi regime in the WH organized the insane protest
still_one
Apr 2020
#16
Web newspaper articles, editorials and such are not absolutely trustworthy for historical/recent ref
keithbvadu2
Apr 2020
#26
I live in a rural area, and these people are putting my loved ones' lives at risk.
dawg
Apr 2020
#29
It begs the deadly, wretched question: How many Trump voters are going to die between now and Nov.?
infullview
Apr 2020
#30
He's a purple prose champion! So many words words words without saying much.
NurseJackie
Apr 2020
#36
William Rivers Pitt is a damn fine writer. I'm always interested in his opinion ...
Auggie
Apr 2020
#42
Oh good lord! Are you shitting me? How pathetic! He's become a caricature of himself!
NurseJackie
Apr 2020
#98
Since when is a Democrat who would never call President Obama a Trojan horse Republican
betsuni
Apr 2020
#87
Pitt is overall wrong: The kill rate is not high enough to affect Trump's support
andym
Apr 2020
#65
This brings up a question I have had for some time. Is it safer right now to be in an urban area
totodeinhere
Apr 2020
#77