Now that #WoodwardTapes show us reality of Trump and #COVID19, new Fox News editorial by Charlie Kirk is even more bananas. First, Kirk gaslights a thesis: Rather than accept claim that "Trump’s coronavirus response was inadequate...." 1/x foxnews.com/opinion/corona…
Next Kirk gaslights with a "fact" claim: "Remember, the American people were originally told it would take 15 days to slow the spread of COVID-19..." Who said that? Trump: 2/x whitehouse.gov/articles/15-da…
Next Kirk turns a "study" that purported to show shutdowns didn't work. There is a reason this study was only written about in WSJ and Fox News: its author is a conservative economics "expert" who has had bad predictions before: 3/x en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Lu…
Next Kirk links to a May report suggesting 150,000 deaths from isolation and unemployment. But the study's remedies to reduce unemployment is *not* 'opening up economy' but to "employ a new workforce" of contract tracers and community health efforts. 4/x wellbeingtrust.org/news/new-wbt-r…
Kirk wants reframe the #COVID19 debate from Trump's dereliction of duty to a (mythical) Biden attack on freedom. And if Trump traps Biden on this, latter will face a policy of lockdown Americans "are increasingly impatient with...." Evidence? Let's go to the receipts... 5/x
56% disapprove of Trump's handling of pandemic; been in 50s since April, reports @NateSilver538 6/x projects.fivethirtyeight.com/coronavirus-po…
August poll asked which two acts would you think "people who do not have symptoms of coronavirus and are otherwise healthy" should do - stay home or live "normal" life. 65% said stay home. Was 91 in March, so slippage. But consistent 60s since May. 7/x news.gallup.com/poll/308222/co…
Next Kirk claims Trump is "the candidate who is pro-economic growth — an issue the American people overwhelmingly trust him with." Reality: "Trump's net approval rating on the economy has dropped from +16 points in January to just +1 point in July." 8/x cnn.com/2020/07/29/pol…
Finally there is Kirk's attempt at new nickname for Biden: "President Trump should call him Lockdown Joe..." As if Kirk invented the phrase. It dates back on Twitter at least 3 weeks and showed up in @ArkansasOnline Aug. 31 column by Bradley Gitz 9/x arkansasonline.com/news/2020/aug/…
This editorial from Kirk is not only sycophancy but is undercut by the object of that sycophancy. Kirk spins himself into an empty soul. And he cheerleads just like Trump while the reality is opposite. When Kirk writes "even more Americans will rally behind" Trump, I say: /end
PS this thread has been added to my @Medium post collecting all my threads on Charlie Kirk: medium.com/@mboedy/twitte…
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