woodguru wrote:
Okay, let
s get rid of the obviously stupid response by MAGA Morons...
Not that he didn't lose, the reality is he did.
I think he lost it because his response to C***d was so bad that even many people on the right could see it...it was bad in multiple ways from the start when he tried to pass it off as a cold and sniffles...
and went into it will be gone by the summer
The reason he actually lost the 2020 e******n was probably that he was insensitive to what a great many v**ers cared about. Two of my Republican in-laws were outraged by things Trump did. For one of them it was how children were separated from their parents at our southern border. For the other, it was Trump's behaviors on J*** 6, 2021. This in-law was so Republican that I didn't think she'd ever change, but after J*** 6, 2021 she quit the Republican party, and I was very surprised to hear it (because _I_ had thought she was so "Republican" that she didn't have even that much sense to quit the party, no matter what). Trump _did_ succeed in the _2016_ e******n, even when people could see he was a callous person who didn't care enough about people or didn't respect people enough, _but_ when he kept offending so many times in so many ways, during the following 4 years, eventually enough people got fed up or outraged about some things he did, such that they chose not to v**e for him in 2020.
There's another question one might ask, which is why _should_ such a candidate have lost an e******n, that is, what are the really good reasons why people should v**e against him.
(Separations at border & J*** 6 were both good reasons, also.)
The item you brought up, "his response to C***d was so bad", is one good reason he should have lost. Very early in the p******c, Trump learned about C***d from a visit to China, and soon after that he was interviewed by Bob Woodward, and he told Woodward that C***d is "more deadly than even your strenuous flus". (page xix of _Rage_, by Bob Woodward). This is enough different from what he told the U.S. public that I think he "lied" to the U.S. public about C***d, and that lie did have deadly consequences for thousands of U.S. people, consequences which were foreseeable. I think a good leader would have been more t***hful and less two-faced about such a matter. So in my view this was a good reason why people should v**e him out of office.
Trump said he didn't "want to create a panic". (page xviii, Ibid.). But what good is that -- it's a poor excuse for the situation. Should he assume the U.S. public is so flighty or immature that it should be told a falsehood rather than a t***h about a "deadly" (his word) contagious disease, to keep it from "panicking"? I say no, it's better to tell the U.S. public the t***h about the deadly disease so that the mature and stable people within the U.S. public would be better informed so as to take care of themselves, their families, and so on.
I think Trump was probably more concerned about the stock market than about the health of the people. And his major donors probably felt the same way, and he would have known that. To keep the stock market up, particularly in the short term, one would want to keep the "economy" going along the same way it had been going along, without much interruption. Precautions about C***d would disrupt the normal way of business. So the poor and middle class people got sold down the river (healthwise) so that the wealthy people could continue to maintain big wealth.