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One of the amazing things about the coronavirus pandemic is watching what all the right-thinking, non-MAGA folks are expected to blame Trump for swivel 180 degr
by makomk 6y ago
One of the amazing things about the coronavirus pandemic is watching what all the right-thinking, non-MAGA folks are expected to blame Trump for swivel 180 degrees in an instant. Not so long ago, the idea that it mattered whether the US made things anymore was a Trumpian delusion, a cynical and counter-productive attempt to exploit people's nostalgia that fundamentally didn't understand how the modern world worked. Now that it turns out that actually being able to make things matters and is what decides if you can supply your populace and doctors with protection, suddenly it's Trump's fault for supposedly destroying American industry in just three years. Similarly, his China travel ban has gone from pointless and xenophobic to not strict enough without anyone blinking an eyelid.
- cecja 6y agoYou can change your opinion on new information. The problem is most of the maga crowd thinks bill gates wants to track them via microchip inside a vaccine. These are information's that's not based on science or a sound mind. The information that changed the minds of the people that questioned the first travel ban. Now was the initial decision to travel ban china based on information, no it was out of spite and to show that something is getting done and to shift blame. So it basically drills down to the question do I want rationality or not.
- cpr 6y agoI'm afraid you're not allowed that kind of truth-telling on HN. (And this'll get downvoted to hell for agreeing with you.) HN is a pretty sad hive of groupthink and "right think".