Just because I’m having way too much fun with the threads on this topic …
When COVID hit, far too many people (read: MAGAs) hammered home the low mortality rate, blindingly obviously ignoring that there are other negatives associated with a pandemic besides death – severe illness, hospitalization, long-term disability, and contagion to name a few.
Ignoring the unbelievable strain on scarce resources and all the direct dollars it cost us all.
Death is not the only bad thing a pandemic can cause.
Marching minorities off to the camps isn’t the only horrible outcome that a Trump 2.0 could see.
Those same low-information/unbearable passion and vociferous ardor folks also didn’t understand that spreading the infection triggered all of the above, even if the spreading was done by the young, healthy, and asymptomatic, leading to the adverse consequences above.
Finally, they screamed, that the pandemic was a total nothing-burger, that Fauci was a war criminal, and that the whole thing was a government plot because the public health mechanism was getting control over the virus based overwhelmingly on the success and the uptake of the vaccines.
Their bogeymen were actually the story’s heroes.
When viewing Trump 2.0, I see a whole lot of the same mentality brought to bear. I also predict that – if we’re fortunate enough that Trump 2.0 isn’t a total shit show – the same people will be saying they “told us so,” where the actual reason will likely be the extraordinary efforts of those in power to both “Trump proof” and resist him at every turn.
Nobody who might be the direct ‘beneficiary’ of Trump’s unchecked insanity is sitting idly by – that’s my surmise.
Just as I surmised, elsewhere, that those who experience the worst of Trump’s ire, and who have the means, are almost surely considering their own Plan B if Trump starts in on his Mortal Enemies List.
Trump didn’t NOT overthrow the legitimately-elected US government because he didn’t try. He didn’t overthrow the government because he tried and failed.
That difference is indescribably important to both understand and acknowledge.