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The 2020 Election, a Race in Which Everything Happens and Nothing Matters | The New Yorker
Curated:
12/09/2020 from
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-2020-election-a-race-in-which-everything-happens-and-nothing-matters
my notes ( ? )
Unless Biden stumbles, he'll win, but the amazing thing is that ~40% of Americans will support Trump no matter what. Trump is talking and acting crazy while over 1000 Americans die of covid19 on many days - compared to around half that in the worst week of the Vietnam war. Yet there seems to be no electoral consequence: the Trump-Biden gap has changed by 0.02% during the month of both party conventions, 30,000 covid19 deaths and schools opening with kids stuck at home:
"a Presidency free of consequence and devoid of accountability... In fact the US is in almost exactly the same place as it was four years ago".
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