# Why do Republicans want to end the corona virus restrictions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 19, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128 "2020-04-19T16:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/121 "2020-04-23T13:04:53Z")
> [@](#): > > … but I lack faith in any government entity telling me what is best for me or my family. I’d rather make those calls myself. You are looking at this from your personal perspective, and not from a collective perspective. So, you feel you have the right to decide things for yourself, however in making the decisions over lockdown what you are doing is making decisions for other people who may not be in a position to protect themselves adequately. If you or your family have wider contact then its reasonable to expect that most everyone else will do the same and this is likely to spread the virus - you might be fine with that risk - but do you have the right to impose that risk on to others? These decisions are not being made directly by ‘gubmint’ but by the individual states concerned, at what level do you think the decision should be taken and what percentage of the population do you believe have a genuine perception of risk, the answer here is that the general public - even the more responsible - have very little sense of proportion of risk, and it does not take many absolute idiots to put everyone at greater risk. Governors cannot take the chance that 100% of the population will be responsible since it only takes a handful of irresponsible people - in this specific pandemic its not the intelligent and responsible person we need to legislate for, so if you wonder why lockdowns need to be tight then look at the absolute morons congregating outside state buildings holding up traffic and gathering closely together - these are the ones who are infringing your right to go out, its these people that Governors have to issue stay at home orders because they are stupid - rather than blame or be suspicious of administrations you should really be asking why these measures need to be in force and need to be so extensive instead of simply briefing people and treating them as mature thinking adults. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/122 "2020-04-23T13:36:25Z")
> [@Kearsen1](#): > > This conservative wants to end the stay at home work order because it isn’t sustainable. Now I am ok will all kinds of restrictions (wear face mask, stay 6’ away, wash hands etc) but people have got to get back to work. I and my family all are lucky enough to have jobs that we can do from home, a lot of others do not, and a lot of other industries business models are failing because they also CANNOT > > I will also attribute it to a false belief that this may be a chicken little moment also but I lack faith in any government entity telling me what is best for me or my family. I’d rather make those calls myself. What you’d rather is not as important as the health of the public. If you think people should risk their lives for the sake of a business model, go to it. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/123 "2020-04-23T13:43:14Z")
I’ve seen people on Facebook argue that public health isn’t listed as an exception to the First Amendment. To which I reply: The virus doesn’t read the Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/124 "2020-04-23T14:00:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Worst case scenario for the Republicans: They have to run campaign ads this October with the message “Sorry we killed your Mom.” They seem to find a silver lining in every worst case. “OK your Mom is dead, but the NRA is still alive, Jeff Bezos is still filthy rich, and Trump is still in charge. KAGA!” ---
**Author:** ![Kearsen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kearsen1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearsen1)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/125 "2020-04-23T18:01:27Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > You are looking at this from your personal perspective, and not from a collective perspective. > > So, you feel you have the right to decide things for yourself, however in making the decisions over lockdown what you are doing is making decisions for other people who may not be in a position to protect themselves adequately. > > If you or your family have wider contact then its reasonable to expect that most everyone else will do the same and this is likely to spread the virus - you might be fine with that risk - but do you have the right to impose that risk on to others? > > These decisions are not being made directly by ‘gubmint’ but by the individual states concerned, at what level do you think the decision should be taken and what percentage of the population do you believe have a genuine perception of risk, the answer here is that the general public - even the more responsible - have very little sense of proportion of risk, and it does not take many absolute idiots to put everyone at greater risk. > > Governors cannot take the chance that 100% of the population will be responsible since it only takes a handful of irresponsible people - in this specific pandemic its not the intelligent and responsible person we need to legislate for, so if you wonder why lockdowns need to be tight then look at the absolute morons congregating outside state buildings holding up traffic and gathering closely together - these are the ones who are infringing your right to go out, its these people that Governors have to issue stay at home orders because they are stupid - rather than blame or be suspicious of administrations you should really be asking why these measures need to be in force and need to be so extensive instead of simply briefing people and treating them as mature thinking adults. If the others are also out and about, they have already decided that … Jail the idiots? ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/126 "2020-04-24T01:53:03Z")
> [@Kearsen1](#): > > If the others are also out and about, they have already decided that … > Jail the idiots? Jail them together in close confinement for 40 days and 40 nights. Let them play chess, and cross-contaminate. We’ll see who comes out alive. Did you see the graph of most US deaths occurring in counties with the most votes for Mr Orange? Coincidence, or…? ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/127 "2020-04-24T02:06:21Z")
Clarification of the above: that chart shows correlation, not cause. 2016 votes correlate to known death rates. I’ll dig up the cite if anyone insists. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/128 "2020-04-24T02:50:39Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > What you are saying is that it is too dangerous to assemble. You are saying that the very core of the right itself is too dangerous and must be suspended. Temporarily suspended, which is a perfectly reasonable response to a massive public-safety emergency that is seriously exacerbated by people assembling in close proximity in person. Look at the ways freedom of speech and the press, for example, are routinely restricted in wartime. Exceptional crises situations do tend to produce exceptional, but temporary, restrictions even on fundamental rights. I don’t really see the point of engaging in paranoid whining about that, except perhaps to gin up partisan resentment against those mean old liberals who are trying to minimize unnecessary deaths. If governments are still placing exceptional restrictions on things like the right to peaceably assemble once we get to a point where peaceably assembling no longer carries a foolishly high risk of unnecessarily killing people, **then** you can come whining to me, and I (along with the rest of the American Civil Liberties Union) will back you up. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/129 "2020-04-24T03:25:23Z")
Since things will be bad _either way_ (deaths _without_ restrictions, other pains _with_ restrictions), key to Trump’s “plans” is _ **to recommend the opposite of what will happen.** _ He condemns Governors who _don’t_ lift restrictions, but also argues against the Georgia Governor who is about _to_ lift restrictions. He just wants to be on the opposite side of what happens, so he can say “I told you so.” A poll shows that a majority of Republicans are more worried about the disease than they are about the economy. Is this broken down demographically? Are those numbers swayed by the large number of old at-risk Republicans? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/130 "2020-04-24T04:16:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You’ve got to have an ordained priest say the words of consecration and do the [transubstantiation](https://study.com/academy/lesson/catholic-doctrine-of-transubstantiation-definition-lesson-quiz.html) thing. Your link takes me to > [@](#): > > To unlock this lesson you must be a [Study.com](http://Study.com) Member. I have another book which discusses the transubstantiation of [sup]235[/sup]U into [sup]90[/sup]Sr. Is it something like that. ```auto [quote="Sam_Stone, post:13, topic:852128"] Of course, in the U.S. you have the unique problem that evil Republicans are involved, and they like eating babies and enslaving everyone in their sweatshops while bathing in their tears. [/QUOTE] Cite? ``` ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/131 "2020-04-25T09:51:56Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Of course, in the U.S. you have the unique problem that evil Republicans are involved, and they like eating babies and enslaving everyone in their sweatshops while bathing in their tears. That’s just for show, to distract us from gerrymandering, voter suppression, and court stacking. Watch the prestidigitator’s right hand, not what their left hand is doing. Eating babies, oh no! Suppressing n!gs and sp!x, that’s just fine. Nicer than slavery. The president said to inject bleach and disinfectants - that will kill you. He wants you dead. His followers want you dead. The. GOP. Wants. You. Dead. Try to relax now, okay? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/132 "2020-04-25T20:19:15Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > That’s just for show, to distract us from gerrymandering, voter suppression, and court stacking. Watch the prestidigitator’s right hand, not what their left hand is doing. Eating babies, oh no! Suppressing n!gs and sp!x, that’s just fine. Nicer than slavery. > > The president said to inject bleach and disinfectants - that will kill you. He wants you dead. His followers want you dead. The. GOP. Wants. You. Dead. Try to relax now, okay? There are those who will say the above is an exaggeration. I say maybe it is, but not by much. The Republican Party needs to be outlawed for similar reasons as Germany has outlawed the Nazi Party. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/133 "2020-04-25T21:09:58Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Or, you know, people are losing their jobs and businesses, have no savings, are struggljng to feed themselves and their kids, and in large parts of the country they live in places where they aren’t seeing much impact from the virus. > > I know Orange Man Bad, but this is a global phenomenon. Governments around the world are facing immense pressure to ease restrictions, because these restrictions are incredibly hard on a lot of people. > > Of course, in the U.S. you have the unique problem that evil Republicans are involved, and they like eating babies and enslaving everyone in their sweatshops while bathing in their tears. At least, that’s the impression I get reading this thread. Republicans don’t like eating babies, just poisoning them. And I don’t think the concentration camps on the border are churning out Ivanka handbags yet either. There’s no need to exaggerate Republican policies to make Republicans look bad. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/134 "2020-04-27T17:12:38Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Trump’s best hope for the election is that in November 2020, the economy is back to normal. This is the least likely scenario. > > The second-best hope is is that the economy is at least trending upward. This is a marginally likely scenario. > > Absent good economic news, his third-best and most likely hope is to push a story of “We Republicans tried to open the economy and the Democrat governors wouldn’t play ball.” > > Sadly, this seems to be a smartly hedged strategy with a non-zero chance of success. I mean his _best_ hope of reelection is to govern capably and steer us through a difficult time by inspiring us to national unity and service. You know, like great presidents have done in the past. But I guess that one’s not really on the table. Cuomo has got a lot of public support, despite basically being as asleep on the job as the Trump admin in the early days of crisis, by being transparent, taking charge, taking responsibility, and steering New York through the crisis capably. That said: we probably _should_ be slowly reopening parts of the economy and easing restrictions in some places in some ways. Not “throw wide the doors of commerce” or “encourage megachurches to meet”, but there’s increasing evidence that things like closing outdoor spaces is of very marginal benefit compared to the amount of pain it imposes. Evidence is that this is mostly spread through sharing indoor spaces in close quarters, not much outside with reasonable separation. By all means, have the beach lifeguards go out and drive some 6-foot separation lines into the sand with their ATVs, post a police officer to enforce distancing and shut things down if it becomes a problem, but let people go to the beach with their immediate families. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/135 "2020-04-27T17:56:42Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > I don’t think me or anyone else in the thread has said any such thing. The thread is “Why do Republicans want to end the corona virus restrictions?” and my answer is that Republicans, generally, do not like government intrusion. When the government tells me that I must stay at home, my first reaction is to recoil and protest against that, and then continually think that we must have a better solution than that. So something like ending restrictions and getting herd immunity will instinctively get a much more positive response from a Republican for that reason alone. > > My impression is that when Democrats hear a decree that you must stay home, their first reaction is that because the government said so then there must be some real substance to that decree because they, again generally, view the government as the provider of social good whether that is health care, or social security, or WIC, or education, or any of the litany of things that the left typically support. > > Like the prior poster, I think we have seen these “Trump sucks” posts in everything. I’ll bet I couldn’t start a thread about stamp collecting that within 10 posts wouldn’t have a negative comment about Trump. And that’s fine, this is a left learning board, so have your fun. > > But when an OP asks us Republicans a question about why we feel a certain way, don’t tell us that it is bullshit when I am telling you exactly how I feel. I don’t have a secret scheme I am hiding from you. As the OP, thanks for participating in this thread **UltraVires**. You nailed it when you stated up-thread that I was honestly trying to understand how Republicans were making their decisions. It has been helpful and I also did not really appreciate the Trump sucks comments even though I strongly feel that he does. I appreciate your input and the responses of other conservatives in this thread. All that said, you should make some threads like this. It is clear from what you say here that you don’t understand how Democrats think at all.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/136 "2020-04-27T20:07:04Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I think the problem is simpler than this. I think some Republicans, including Trump, have just become too locked into the principle of arguing. They can’t stop even when it’s an issue where they should be agreeing. > > When the terrorists attacked on 9/11, everyone was in agreement that it was a bad thing and we should fight the terrorists. It was a universal opinion held by Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals. And Bush was smart enough to see this and just take the leadership of the consensus. > > But Trump and his loyalists don’t have the ability to do this. They see everything as “I’m right and you’re wrong” - so they feel compelled to argue against the Democrats even when the Democrats are saying something that’s undeniably sensible. Agreed. And this goes back for years. I remember reading that during the Obama years, Republicans in power became even more increasingly unwilling to compromise. Compromises between parties had been the way government was run for years. But this came to an end. Why? The theory I read was that many Republican voters and an increasing number of Republican politicians viewed Obama (and by extension the entire Democrat Party) as not merely wrong… But actually EVIL. Obama was not just offering different policies - he was the LITERAL Antichrist, put here on earth to destroy mankind. This is what a significant portion of the Republican party actually thought. We can debate about WHY they thought this about the first president who was not white, but that’s not important now. The think is; You don’t compromise with EVIL. You don’t agree with the Literal Antichrist. And this has become how rank and file Republicans (and their leaders) continue to operate today. They cannot, CANNOT ever agree with ANYthing a Democrat says. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/137 "2020-04-27T20:28:48Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Agreed. And this goes back for years. I remember reading that during the Obama years, Republicans in power became even more increasingly unwilling to compromise. Compromises between parties had been the way government was run for years. But this came to an end. > > Why? The theory I read was that many Republican voters and an increasing number of Republican politicians viewed Obama (and by extension the entire Democrat Party) as not merely wrong… But actually EVIL. Obama was not just offering different policies - he was the LITERAL Antichrist, put here on earth to destroy mankind. This is what a significant portion of the Republican party actually thought. We can debate about WHY they thought this about the first president who was not white, but that’s not important now. > > The think is; You don’t compromise with EVIL. You don’t agree with the Literal Antichrist. And this has become how rank and file Republicans (and their leaders) continue to operate today. They cannot, CANNOT ever agree with ANYthing a Democrat says. This trend started before Obama. It was pretty strong when Bill Clinton was president. Newt Gingrich shut down the government with glee, thinking that the whole country would be behind him. Republicans took an “anything-goes” approach to dealing with Clinton. Blocking judicial appointees and routine filibustering started in earnest during this time. The Republicans engineering a firing of (their own) Robert Fiske and replacement with Kenneth Starr when it became clear that Fiske was about to exonerate Clinton. You can find these kinds of anti-Democratic/Liberal trends going pretty far back. It was done mostly at state and local stages during the Lyndon Johnson era. It was nationwide during McCarthyism. The idea that the left and liberals are evil and anything can be done to destroy them is deeply embedded in modern American conservatism. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/138 "2020-04-27T20:32:33Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Agreed. And this goes back for years. I remember reading that during the Obama years, Republicans in power became even more increasingly unwilling to compromise. Compromises between parties had been the way government was run for years. But this came to an end. > > Why? The theory I read was that many Republican voters and an increasing number of Republican politicians viewed Obama (and by extension the entire Democrat Party) as not merely wrong… But actually EVIL. Obama was not just offering different policies - he was the LITERAL Antichrist, put here on earth to destroy mankind. This is what a significant portion of the Republican party actually thought. We can debate about WHY they thought this about the first president who was not white, but that’s not important now. > > The think is; You don’t compromise with EVIL. You don’t agree with the Literal Antichrist. And this has become how rank and file Republicans (and their leaders) continue to operate today. They cannot, CANNOT ever agree with ANYthing a Democrat says. This trend started before Obama. It was pretty strong when Bill Clinton was president. Newt Gingrich shut down the government with glee, thinking that the whole country would be behind him. Republicans took an “anything-goes” approach to dealing with Clinton. Blocking judicial appointees and routine filibustering started in earnest during this time. The Republicans engineering a firing of (their own) Robert Fiske and replacement with Kenneth Starr when it became clear that Fiske was about to exonerate Clinton. You can find these kinds of anti-Democratic/Liberal trends going pretty far back. It was done mostly at state and local stages during the Lyndon Johnson era. It was nationwide during McCarthyism. In the pre-New Deal era, corporations gleefully murdered employees trying to advocate for better working conditions and compensation. The idea that the left and liberals are evil and anything can be done to destroy them is deeply embedded in modern American conservatism. It wasn’t always in action at the top national level, but it has been building for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/139 "2020-04-27T20:33:31Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > My impression is that when Democrats hear a decree that you must stay home, their first reaction is that because the government said so then there must be some real substance to that decree because they, again generally, view the government as the provider of social good whether that is health care, or social security, or WIC, or education, or any of the litany of things that the left typically support. This bit stuck me. It seems that you have a negative opinion of this “litany of things”. The phraseology seems to imply that you disapprove of these things. So healthcare for the population is not a good thing for the government to support. Nor is Education. Government should have nothing to do with education; Leave that up to individual families I guess? Social security - another bad government thing. Life was probably better for old people before this, was it? Those lefties. Supporting stupid stuff for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Kearsen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kearsen1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearsen1)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128/140 "2020-04-27T20:39:08Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Agreed. And this goes back for years. I remember reading that during the Obama years, Republicans in power became even more increasingly unwilling to compromise. Compromises between parties had been the way government was run for years. But this came to an end. > > Why? The theory I read was that many Republican voters and an increasing number of Republican politicians viewed Obama (and by extension the entire Democrat Party) as not merely wrong… But actually EVIL. Obama was not just offering different policies - he was the LITERAL Antichrist, put here on earth to destroy mankind. This is what a significant portion of the Republican party actually thought. We can debate about WHY they thought this about the first president who was not white, but that’s not important now. > > The think is; You don’t compromise with EVIL. You don’t agree with the Literal Antichrist. And this has become how rank and file Republicans (and their leaders) continue to operate today. They cannot, CANNOT ever agree with ANYthing a Democrat says. And next you’ll tell them that Democrats do not do this, but if they do it’s because the Pubbies are actually wrong and shouldn’t be listened to anyway, am I right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-want-to-end-the-corona-virus-restrictions/852128.md?page=8)