by Mike King
NY Times Headlines:
* Trump's Easter Back-To-Business Goal 'Catastrophic'
* Trump Says Reopen by Easter, Corporate America Says Not So Fast
* Coronavirus Advancing. All Americans Need to Shelter in Place.
* Dollar Signs Versus Vital Signs
* Trump Wants U.S. ‘Opened Up’ by Easter, Despite Health Officials’ Warn
REBUTTAL BY
In this tactical tug-of-war over whose script will be chosen for the final act of Coronavirus: The Movie -- we have, on one side, Trump and the patriots proposing the “happy ending” version of re-opening businesses and resuming the counter-attack on the Deep State by Easter Weekend (April 10 -12) --- and, in the other camp, there are the undefeated and still-mighty Globalists whose version of the closing scene climaxes with the “Herbert Hooverization” of Trump and allies worldwide by imposing an indefinite economy-killing “shelter-in-place” regime upon Planet Earth. Psychopath Bill Gates for example -- who, in my perfect world, would to be beaten to death with hammers on live TV -- is calling for up to an additional TEN WEEKS of shut-down.
As the above-listed pro-depression / anti-“get back to work” headlines clearly indicate, we know which ending that “the paper of record” prefers.
1 . Trump: "America was not built to be shut down." He has stated repeatedly that he wants the country back to work by Easter (4-10-20 is "Good Friday" this year, and corresponds to his initials, DJT) //
2. Fake News and Demonrat Governors want to keep the country shut down. //
3. The goal of the Ghoulish Governors is to do to Trump what they did to President Hoover.
For the benefit of the historically rusty, a bit of Real History precedent review is in order here.
In 1928, Republican Herbert Hoover was elected President by winning 40 of the then-48 states. It was the third consecutive Republican landslide (Harding, 1920 & Coolidge, 1924). Hoover had