nojo seems to have enjoyed one of Bill Murray’s better movies. Me too. I’ve watched Groundhog Day a few times. nojo applies the script to the Trump presidency.
Jonathan Bernstein watches political town hall programs. No accounting for taste. Voters at these events aren’t much for gotcha questions or dialogue about process. No tricks. Mostly basic questions about practical policies. Predictable. Easy to breeze through. Both candidates had their chance. Biden cleared the basics with ease. So why did Trump have trouble?
In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson explores my president’s venture outside the Fox cocoon, as he submits to questions from ordinary, non-screened, voters. No, he doesn’t implode, but it goes surprisingly unwell.
driftglass notices that the Republican strategy against Biden has pretty much failed. So they have gone to a new strategy: running against an imaginary Biden.
Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger takes a look at herd immunity, the newest Trump strategy against the pandemic. The idea is to let most folks catch the virus. Those that don’t die will recover and be immune. So the folks in the US who we put in the ground will number between 2.2 million and 6.7 million.
As I recall, there is some historical precedent. After 200 million or so died in the 14th century, the Black Death Plague was eventually over.
M. Bouffant at Web of Evil suggests to a climate denying public official a thinly disguised suggestion of an anatomical improbability, and expresses undisguised glee at the poor fellow’s fate. All by putting a headline over a headline.
Ideologues often seem incapable of recognizing important distinctions. Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara believes that any recognition of American slavery going back to 1619 – indeed that any recognition of slavery in the US as more than a brief unfortunate interlude in the American history of liberty and freedom for all – must include a core premise “that slavery, not individual freedom, defines America.” The headline reads: Biden Cancels America.