NYTimes: Virus Crisis 'Outgrowth of Exploitative' Capitalism, Reaganism

[rangerrebew]

NYTimes: Virus Crisis 'Outgrowth of Exploitative' Capitalism, Reaganism
By Clay Waters | April 30, 2020 3:27 PM EDT

In “Reconciling the Pandemic With the Nation’s Self-Image,” her left-wing essay disguised as news in Wednesday’s New York Times, culture reporter Jennifer Schuessler used an ill-concealed gloating tone, as if the pandemic, which caught the whole world (except China) off guard, is the final blow to naive Reaganesque pride in American uniqueness.

She even quoted a liberal historian attacking America for being in the thrall of Ronald Reagan.

But first, there was this:

 

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2020/04/30/ny-times-us-corona-crisis-outgrowth-exploitative-system-capitalism

[rangerrebew]

You clan always depend on the NY Slimes to support American ideals.

[PeteS in CA]

1. Reagan left office over 30 years ago. I'm sure the Slimes celebrated Reagan's departure, Alzheimer's, and death.

2. No President forced China to be sloppy and let the virus escape from the lab in Wuhan (IMO, the most plausible current theory/explanation).

3. The Wuhan lab is a government-run facility, making capitalism and other economic structures irrelevant.

Not that facts would matter to an NYT political editorialist.