I don’t believe the President has ever belittled the threat of the coronavirus
—Vice President Mike Pence, 1 April 2020 on CNN.
I know that Mike Pence is a politician, and that you can tell when a politician is lying because you can see his or her lips moving. I also know that Pence, as a so-called conservative1, practices willful ignorance, but no one — no one — is that fucking ignorant.
I won’t waste time reiterating all the ways that the President has, in fact, repeatedly belitted the threat posed by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), especially when a many others have already done so.
Politics and carrying water for your boss is one thing — being a fucking lying lier is another. This is not a man of character.
yeah, in a minute…
1 I use the term, “so-called conservative,” because neither Ronald Reagan — supposed hero of the modern-day so-called conservatives — nor his hero, Barry Goldwater, the father of American Conservatism and author of the seminal work on American Conservatism, The Conscience of a Conservative (a book that should be required reading) would recognize present-day Republicans, nor those who presently call themselves “non-Republican conservatives,” as members of their Republican party nor practitioners of their traditional American conservatism. I used to attempt to distinguish between the two by using the terms “traditional American Conservatism” and “modern American conservatism” but this is wrong, as present-day American “conservatives” are not practicing actual American Conservatism, and thus are not Conservatives at all.