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There is a long pattern of behavior, which to me is evidence. Reported in places such as: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-hardball-trump-and-re

by avs733 6y ago

There is a long pattern of behavior, which to me is evidence. Reported in places such as: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-hardball-trump-and-republicans-bolster-red-states-punish-blue/2017/09/25/e114cea4-9ef5-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-hardball-tru... https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/trump-escalating-his-war-blue-america/611653/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/trump-e... https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-trump-says-blue-state-bailouts-unfair-to-republicans.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-trump-says-blue-... https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/trump-epa-california-car-emissions/598381/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/trump-e... I believe there was even a Harvard public policy journal article that made this argument which I can't locate at the moment.

danans 6y ago
In general, I agree that the administration's policies have targeted blue states for punishment, the biggest example being the tax cut. But in the specific instance of the PPP loans, I'm just going to wait for the investigative reporting. That said the POTUS quotes in the CNBC article you linked regarding funding for coronavirus relief are pretty interesting in retrospect: “because all the states that need help — they’re run by Democrats in every case.” “Florida is doing phenomenal, Texas is doing phenomenal, the Midwest is, you know, fantastic — very little debt,”