04-18-2020, 02:26 PM
A little off the beaten path here: If I were to put myself in the shoes of a Trump adviser, charged with getting him re-elected this fall, I'd be really hesitant about telling him to go hard with the re-open and "liberate"(lol) trend.
I honestly don't believe that enough undecided voters will blame him for the initial outbreak/economic impact to cost him the election. I think a good enough number see it as a thing that was basically out of his hands. He can weather any fallout if things have already hit bottom, and we get back on track.
However, if he's on record being ride or die with "liberating" and arbitrarily throwing out tweets devoid of specifics, he's digging a hole that he won't get out of by November. If/when there's another big spike in cases, and more people get experience with it firsthand, he's going to get beaten like a mad dog with mange. Biden can just stand there and try to remember who he is for the next 7 months, and it won't matter, because Trump will be the guy that killed granny to save his re-election chances.
To boot, the effort to save the economy will be for naught if people are still too afraid to go out and spend. If it's bad enough for another quarantine, we'll end up in a recession/depression we won't dig out of for a year.
If I were advising him, I'd tell him to give it til June, get testing supplies, and keep his mouth shut on twitter. It would serve him well.
I think a majority of Americans are still on the side of playing it safe and taking the virus seriously. The protestors and squealers are a vocal minority. They won't be enough to keep him alive at the polls in swing states.
I honestly don't believe that enough undecided voters will blame him for the initial outbreak/economic impact to cost him the election. I think a good enough number see it as a thing that was basically out of his hands. He can weather any fallout if things have already hit bottom, and we get back on track.
However, if he's on record being ride or die with "liberating" and arbitrarily throwing out tweets devoid of specifics, he's digging a hole that he won't get out of by November. If/when there's another big spike in cases, and more people get experience with it firsthand, he's going to get beaten like a mad dog with mange. Biden can just stand there and try to remember who he is for the next 7 months, and it won't matter, because Trump will be the guy that killed granny to save his re-election chances.
To boot, the effort to save the economy will be for naught if people are still too afraid to go out and spend. If it's bad enough for another quarantine, we'll end up in a recession/depression we won't dig out of for a year.
If I were advising him, I'd tell him to give it til June, get testing supplies, and keep his mouth shut on twitter. It would serve him well.
I think a majority of Americans are still on the side of playing it safe and taking the virus seriously. The protestors and squealers are a vocal minority. They won't be enough to keep him alive at the polls in swing states.