With Trump, You Can’t Possibly Be Cynical Enough

During a recent spate of cynicism, I made a prediction to friends: Before this thing is over, Trumpists will be calling the COVID-19 virus God’s will. So let’s get back to work, save the stock market and let the disease sort them out. There are more than 300-million individuals resident in the United States. Surely we can spare a few million old timers who were going to die anyway.

But you almost can’t get cynical enough. Before the day was out, Boss Trump was hinting that maybe time had come to kiss grandpa goodbye: “America will again and soon be open for business—very soon,” he said during the daily performance of the Mighty Coronovirus Art Players. “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.

Interviewed on (where else?) Fox News, the Lt. Governor of Texas suggested that grandparents should be willing to die to protect the economy for their grandchildren. Continue reading.