-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 WD> Hopefully as a result of this pandemic and his bad handling, he
 WD> won't be elected. I can't imagine after what happened that he
 WD> still can get enough volume in the electoral college.

 DC> NEWSFLASH:  The Wuhan Virus is/was not Trump's fault, regardless
 DC> of how many times the libtards say it is.  Therefore, why would it
 DC> be held against him at election time?

 KW> I don't know if you were attempting a straw man argument or
 KW> misread Ward's quoted bit there. I read it as "his bad handling
 KW> of the pandemic".

No strawman attempt, nor misreading.  You didn't read it correctly 
if that's what you got.  I'll tell you why:

He (Ward) didn't say "his bad handling of the pandemic".  What 
he did say was that he didn't see Trump being (re)elected as a 
result of this pandemic *AND* his bad handling of it.  That's two 
separate things that he referred to.  Obviously the second one 
(the handling of it) is something that some folks think Trump 
should have done better with.  What's not quite so obvious is the 
*inferred* fault being put on Trump for the pandemic itself.  It's 
right there in what was said, pretty straightforward English.

 KW> If you re-read it as I characterized it in the above paragraph,
 KW> do you agree that people could have issues with Trump's handling
 KW> of the pandemic response that could affect their vote in
 KW> November? Especially if we see a surge in the fall, as many
 KW> medical experts are expecting.

Sure, I'm positive that people have issues with how Trump has 
handled the response.  No doubt about that.  The actual question 
though is "should they" (have issues)?  What's unclear to me is 
what folks think should have been done differently.  As a matter 
of fact, Trump was *soundly* criticized for cutting travel to/from 
China, and then Europe, as early as he did.  Remember?  Lots of 
people said that was an over-reaction.  So which is it?  It's a 
case of "damned if you do, damned if you don't".

If he had acted even more quickly or aggessively, do you doubt 
that the Left would have started screaming that he was over 
stepping his authority and trying to be "a dictator"?

 KW> NEWSFLASH: Most reasonable people refer to the virus as
 KW> "Covid-19", or colloquially as Coronavirus. The only people I've
 KW> heard call it the "Wuhan Virus" were trying to deflect from their
 KW> performance in managing the pandemic.

Yep, no argument there, a poor word choice on my part.

Personally, my belief is that if there is blame to be placed on 
the handling of things, first look at the Governors of states.


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