On the one hand, Trump denial of the coronavirus has killed tens of thousands of Americans and crashed the economy; he is undermining the armed forces, alienating allies and helping dictators. On the other hand, a dozen obnoxious "woke" people made a scene at a DC restaurant. https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1298512470127054848
That's the balance between right-wing authoritarianism and left-wing authoritarianism right now in America. Both are real. But the scale is not even comparable.
There is no chance that this form if insane Leftism will be in or near the White House if Biden wins. Yet watch Fox, the Trump campaign, Twitter and Facebook convince people to fear it, and not the wholesale destruction of the US economy, foreign policy, rule of law
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