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Make no mistake. #PMModi's address to the nation was politucally a #MasterStroke. By a) opening up vaccines to 18+ but leaving that to the States
b) appealing against lockdowns
c) assuring the people of medicines beds and oxygen but askinc States to make the arrangements...
b) appealing against lockdowns
c) assuring the people of medicines beds and oxygen but askinc States to make the arrangements...
He has passed on the baton of responsibility and accountability to the States, while reserving for himself the credit for any end to the crisis. He has outsourced potential brickbats the people might throw, while keeping for himself any bouquets his #Bhakts are busy preparing.
#AmericaIsOnTheBallot "Every democracy or many democracies in their histories have taken a flier on a populist fast-talking con man. I come from Minnesota, we have a governor we took a flier on like that, it happens in history. You can do it once but when you do it twice, then 1/ 
it's no longer about who he is. It’s about who you are. The whole world will look #differently at US if we were to reaffirm & re-elect this man, because then the world will actually start looking at us really how it looks at Russia & China. Just another #transactional country. 2/
They’ll look at us as a country that #decided to #change the #StatueOfLiberty from “give me your tired, your poor, those seeking & yearning to be #free, to get the #hell off my lawn… & that will affect the whole world. The world likes to make fun of America. 3/
