Thread by @doctorow

Trumpism is an incompetent death cult. While the movement's incompetence (embodied by the inability of many of its worst monsters to keep their jobs long enough to enact their key policies) finally met its match with the pandemic, though.

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When the plague started, Trumpism's thought-leaders rushed to advise the elderly voters who constitute its base that they should engage in high-risk conduct:

pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-m…

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They insisted that the answer to the plague was for the "free market" to decide which countermeasures would save our lives:

pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/rio…

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And when that failed, they literally told old people it was their moral duty to commit suicide-by-virus in order to save the economy:

vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/d…

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Now, as Trump desperately hauls his mouldering carcass through the precincts he needs to swing for him after he spent half a year telling them to kill themselves, he's tripped over his own tie, hospitalizing his few remaining stalwarts.

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

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Last night, Trump rallied his heavily comorbid base at Nebraska’s Eppley Airfield, finishing his speech and flying off in his presidential jet as temperatures plummeted to 34' (about 1' C).

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The thousands of attendees he left behind were at the mercy of the kind of grifter Trump gets to throw rallies for him. Unfortunately for them, that's the kind of grifter who provides no shelter for attendees and takes four hours to bus them all offsite.

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"We need at least 30 more buses" - Omaha officer on the scene.

Many experienced hypothermia. At least seven attendees were hospitalized. Law enforcement reported elderly attendees were "frozen cold unable to move with an altered mental status."

https://twitter.com/omaha_scanner/status/1321301704470597638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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The fact that he can't bestir himself from attempting to murder his supporters until AFTER election-day really says it all.

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Paul Cole (modified)
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