May 19, 2020
Hubris and miscalculation: The left's bid to exploit the virus to defeat Trump
By Patricia McCarthy
Confident of their ability to defeat Trump with their radical, pro–illegal alien, pro-criminal, pro-socialist agenda, the left is badly overreaching. House speaker Nancy Pelosi's proposed $3-trillion monstrosity stimulus is a joke. The trillions they pledged under the rubric of the COVID-19 disaster is trillions more added to our national debt. The stimulus will be money printed, distributed, and spent as if it were grown on trees. Irresponsible states such as California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois hope to use the virus to cheat the American taxpayers into rescuing them from their own profligacy.
The more they can successfully blame the virus for their own gross mishandling of their states' funds, the more they think they can cash in on their own catastrophic governmental errors in judgment. For governors such as Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, Tom Wolf, et al., the COVID-19 pandemic is a godsend, an opportunity, as so many Democrats have observed, to push for their radical socialist agenda. The longer their blue states can keep up the lockdown that is impoverishing their citizens, the more they think those same citizens will blame President Trump and vote for a Joe Biden ticket in November. Common sense is not one of the left's intellectual strengths. Sure, there is an army of virtue-signaling bullies who scornfully chastise anyone not sufficiently social-distancing or going outside maskless, but it is precisely those "Karens," the people who think it is the government's job to take care of them, who are appropriately the subjects of mockery by citizens sick to death of this outrageous lockdown and the blue states' ridiculous edicts meant to control our behavior.
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