In calling for broader reopenings after telling supporters that COVID-19 'affects elderly people,' President Trump is implicitly arguing that a disease that kills only old people is not worth containing. EricLevitz writes
He’s just not that into you. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Donald Trump’s campaign would be in pretty good shape if it weren’t for old white people.
Any remotely competent campaign would respond to this data by adjusting its messaging to better appeal to Trump’s birth cohort. So what is the president’s plan for making American seniors Republican again? At a rally in Ohio on Monday, Trump belittled the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing, “It affects elderly people. Elderly people with heart problems and other problems. If they have other problems, that’s what it really affects.”
Trump followed up this public-health analysis with a call for broader reopenings, implicitly arguing that a disease that kills only old people is not worth containing.
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