Why the republicans are destined to fail

[DesertDog]

As indicated by the Republican Party platform for the 2020 election: Reelect Trump.

That’s it; nothing else at all about a position on anything. No wonder they’re afraid of his fan club.

[Ziberian]

These should get you started…

Compiled by redditor u/Toxic_Gorilla. Here’s a list of Trump’s failings in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, all sourced.

Spring 2018: Trump disbanded the pandemic response team assembled under President Obama during the ebola outbreak of 2014.

July 2019: The Trump admin let go of Linda Quick, a CDC epidemiologist stationed in Beijing whose role was designed to help China detect and respond to outbreaks.

January 2020: The Department of Health and Human Services deployed several federal workers to help Americans evacuated from China… without the proper training or protective gear.

February 2020: Trump downplayed the threat of COVID-19 in multiple public statements, dissuading Americans from acting vigilantly.

March 2020:

• Trump repeatedly lied and made promises he didn’t keep as COVID-19 continued to spread.

** On March 6, he assured us that the CDC’s testing kits were both plentiful and reliable.

** Then he said that leading health insurance companies would be waiving co-pays for coronavirus treatments.

** Later that same week, he promised that we would soon see COVID-19 testing “on a very large scale basis”. Two weeks later, we’re STILL seeing shortages of basic testing supplies.

• When asked on March 13, he refused to take any responsibility for the scarcity and faultiness of the CDC’s testing kits - you know, the ones he assured us were both abundant and “beautiful” the week before.

• Oh, and he falsely put the blame on Obama era regulations that never actually existed.

• Trump refused for weeks to invoke the Defense Production Act to demand companies to produce more ventilators. He finally caved last Friday.

• To date, he refuses to lift his ban on human fetal tissue research, which would prove invaluable in our efforts to concoct a coronavirus cure or treatment.

From another source:
– He could have not shut down the government agencies established specifically to respond to medical crises like this
– He could have begun stockpiling medical equipment & supplies in January 2020 when experts told him to, which would have prevented the shortages down the road
– He could have started testing, tracking & vaccine programs in January 2020 instead of putting the US months behind by doing nothing
– He could have publicly supported common-sense health measures instead of politicizing the virus response

And a couple more lists;
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jbd6lo/totally_under_control_new_secretlyfilmed/g8vpw1y/

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/21242003/trump-failed-coronavirus-response

[Atamasama]

@Ziberian

These should get you started…

Yeah, but aside from all that, what did he get wrong?

[enipla]

@Atamasama

Yeah, but aside from all that, what did he get wrong?

“Hillary did nothing!11!!!.”

[robertmuler]

@MikeF

This is key. There have been violent protests throughout our history. You could argue some were justified, some not. The country, as a whole, survived them all. Even the Civil War wasn’t an attack on democracy itself. The South wasn’t trying to overthrow the existing government, “just” secede from it. What Trump and his ilk came perilously close to doing was undermining the whole system. The gutless, elected officials who won’t call it what it was (and is) are as much of a danger as Trump himself.

Some things need repeating