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Showing Original Post only (View all)the scary thing is, i think it's now clear donnie would have won easily if it weren't for covid-19 [View all]
and his utterly botched handling of the crisis.
i think the whole denial, refusing to help states, interfering with good medical advice, refusing to have a national plan, not encouraging proper social distancing, trying to get everyone back to work and back to school prematurely, and most notably, the whole anti-mask thing -- all of this crap, i think it cost him a lot of votes.
a lot of the selfish republicans and independents who are happy to support a bigot and a crook as long as they get their tax cut realize that any tax cut the benefit from doesn't offset the cost of a lost job or business due to a president so incompetent that he makes a crisis like this drag out much longer and damage the economy much more than it needed to.
and with all that, our win, at least in the electoral college, was pretty narrow.
which means that had he handled it remotely competently, he very likely would have won, despite still being a massive bigot, sexist, racist, xenophobic, criminal, incompetent sh*thead.
scary.
eta: in terms of what-ifs, i think there are two scenarios.
(1) what if donnie had handled covid-19 remotely competently and
(2) what if covid-19 had never happened at all.
i was thinking in terms of (1) when i posted this, and let the limited space for the subject line make my header a bit unclear on that.
in terms of (2), i can see that there are not having covid-19 happen at all changes many things politically and maybe it's less clear donnie would have won in that case, though i'm still pretty sure he would have won even then.
but certainly, had we done what most other countries did, had a 8-weeks or so lock down starting in march or even february and then massive distribution of ppe and ramping up of hospital space and properly encouraged social distancing and mask-wearing everywhere and then reopened cautiously with massive testing and contact tracing and quarantining, then i think the economy would have largely bounced back to where it was and donnie would have been hailed as a capable leader through a crisis and he would have won easily.
