By Conrad Black
It's almost unbelievable that the Democrats have allowed themselves to be so completely out-maneuvered by President Trump in the coronavirus and economic crises. They are all calling for an indefinite protraction of the economic hemorrhage, with unemployment increasing by hundreds of thousands every day, even as the incidence of the virus declines.
The Democrats started out with every advantage: the crisis came out of the blue and burst over the administration. As soon as there was any hint of how aggressive and dangerous the virus was, the anti-Trump press went wild — frightening the public with visions of a bubonic plague that threatened the life of everyone despite the fact that approximately 98% of people under 65 who get the coronavirus, survive it.
At first, Trump was a bit blase' about "the flu." But then, as he noted the potential scope of the problem and stopped direct flights from China on January 31, he was accused of "racism" and "xenophobia" by those pendants of the Democratic weltanschauung, likely presidential nominee Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
As drastic forecasts of immense numbers of fatalities started tumbling out of ostensibly credible centers of epidemiology, the new refrain was that Trump was a moronic enemy of science......To Read More...
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