We could be on the brink of a period in which red America curses blue America with continued coronavirus deaths as the price to pay for red America’s economic revival. ed_kilgore writes
God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah, the wicked cities of the plain. Photo: John Martin/Wikipedia The single richest theme in the long history of American populism — left-wing as well as right-wing — has been the wickedness of urban areas, where rich cosmopolitans exploit virtuous small-town and country folk and the polyglot helots of the cities themselves, whom they command politically as well as economically.
Even more divisive, both culturally and politically, is what actually happened: the spread of infection beyond urban areas in degrees sufficient to arouse fears and justify the imposition of social-distancing rules, but not enough to make this feel like a genuinely national malady in which all Americans are in solidarity:
The calculation underlying Trump’s “liberate” crusade was revealed in a comment on the Facebook page of Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine: We’ve been seeing among conservative opinion leaders lately an open, nostalgic yearning for the agrarian America of the distant past, as in a Breitbart News interview West Virginia’s Republican governor Jim Justice:
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