David Cay Johnston: Will Republican Cultists Die For Their Dear Leader?
https://www.dcreport.org/2020/10/07/will-republican-cultists-die-for-their-dear-leader/
Instead of shooting someone on Fifth Avenue, spraying lead bullets out of a gun, Trump sprayed the deadly coronavirus with every word coming out of his unmasked mouth.
Among those whose lives are now at risk the seven children of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who sat mask-less in the Rose Garden on Sept. 26 when Trump announced their mother was his Supreme Court nominee. As an exercise in atrocious judgment bringing children to a crowded event during a pandemic and not masking them should be enough to establish that Barrett is unfit to sit on any bench.
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And what about the 11-month-old baby of Kayleigh McEnany, Trumps press secretary. She has tested positive after again and again showing her fealty to the imaged great leader by going mask-less. Does anyone doubt that if McEnany were a poor black or brown womanor a Jew or Muslim in a Bible Belt countythat child protective services would be investigating whether to remove the infant Blake for her own safety?
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The reason, rationality, and civil debate envisioned by our Founders and Framers have no place in Trumps anti-democratic cult. All that matters is loyalty to the leader, a loyalty that runs only one way.
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