Opinion | DeanObeidallah: Trump 2.0, like the original, doesn’t care about facts — it’s all about the fear. - MSNBCDaily
of Florida voters support a mask mandate for schools. At first blush, you might think that might cause DeSantis to rethink his position. But DeSantis, like Trump, is focused only on the GOP base. So while the poll finds that 84 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of independents support a school mask mandate, only 39 percent of Republicans feel the same — meaning DeSantis’ position is popular with Republican voters.Trump 2.0, like the original, doesn’t care about facts — it’s all about the fear.
If you ban mask mandates when health care experts unanimously say they are needed to protect the health of children, you would reasonably expect a child to get sick — or worse.lashed out at his critics with some very Trumpesque lines. He claimed that the real reason Covid-19 case numbers are climbing in the U.S. is that migrants crossing the border are bringing the virus with them. Fact-checkers have noted that this is false — the Covid-19 spike is occurring in the states with the
, many of them far from the southern border. But Trump 2.0, like the original, doesn’t care about facts — it’s all about the fear.about DeSantis and other GOP governors who have chosen to block efforts to bring the virus under control: “I say to these governors: Please help. But if you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way.”
Those words, though, fall on deaf ears with DeSantis. His focus isn’t on what’s good for all the people of Florida — it’s on only what makes the GOP base happy. And if children need to be sacrificed for DeSantis to win the GOP nomination for president, he is clearly willing to take that risk.
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