The latest in Republican right wing doubling down is where a Trump official ridicules Biden for wearing a mask--after the President has knowingly infected others and has had to be hospitalized for contracting the COVID-19 virus. And we see how Trump fans are reacting to even a far fight FoxNews host who is wearing a mask in public. This is how doubling down on delusions and hatred works with a small, but significant portion of the public.
It may be said this particular doubling down is where desperation, a cynical and cruel hope for end times, and abject hatred, overlap. Anyone voting for Trump who thinks they are conserving anything right now should take a long look in the mirror and do a check on the reality or delusion that they believe is driving their vote for Trump.
Oh, and don't ask me to give my thoughts and prayers for Trump, as he has shown himself, once and for all, to be a person who is selfish and cruel to a level that should have anyone with any decency deeply concerned. Trump knowingly put others at risk of infection, and promoted lies while doing so. One can blanch at the over 200,000 dead, including Herman Cain, who bought into Trump's slow-moving Purple Kool-Aid. But, this deeply personal level of deliberately putting people at risk of infection is astonishing to me.
Yes, I feel badly for those Trump's conduct over the past week alone have become infected--and I feel especially badly for those people's families. However, I cannot feel badly for a guy who not only knowingly infected others, but who refuses to follow doctor's orders during his quarantine period. I don't remember anyone feeling badly or asking for thoughts and prayers for the few people with AIDS in the 1980s who continued to have sex with others, without telling them they had contracted AIDS. And, really, why is Trump any different than this guy?
Right now, it is as if John Mulaney's allegory about a horse loose in a hospital has gone to a demented level, where the horse gets out of the hospital, only to go into a contained vehicle to infect others before returning to the hospital to run loose again. "I didn't know he could do that..."
