As bumbling as the Trump administration has been in addressing the current health scare, count on Democrats to come out of this looking so much worse as they try using the crisis as an excuse to push their irritating social justice causes.
Imagine learning that a third of the U.S. economy has shuttered amid a pandemic, and to address the emergency, Democrats swung into action by crafting a multitrillion-dollar bill that, among other things, mandates that any business in need of financial relief “has adopted a policy, plan, or strategy to promote racial, ethnic, and gender diversity.”
Imagine learning that tens of thousands of people have been infected with a new disease traced back to a wet, unsanitary seafood market in China, and the response from Democrats and liberals in the national media is to aggressively shame anyone who dares note the virus’s origins.
Imagine being confronted with a new, worldwide, deadly virus and that action taken by the president to contain its spread (again, where the contagion started) was labeled by the presumed Democratic presidential nominee as “xenophobic” and “racial.”
All of that has happened over the course of the last two weeks, while the number of people dead in the United States from the virus has climbed closer to 1,000, and the number of weekly jobless claims could hit 3.4 million.
The economic relief bill recently proposed by House Democrats would have mandated that “any corporation that receives Federal aid related” to the virus take stock of the “gender, race, and ethnic identity” of all of its employees, its material suppliers, and its board members. The purpose, naturally, would be to ensure that corporations accepting the funding “maintain officials and budget[s] dedicated to diversity and inclusion initiatives …”
I wonder how many people lost their jobs while the freaks who inserted that portion into the bill patted themselves on the back.
Following the president’s referrals to the coronavirus by its country of origin, or as “Chinese,” California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu wrote in the Washington Post that the “repeated insistence on calling coronavirus the ‘Chinese virus’ is more than just xenophobic; it causes harm both to Asian Americans and to the White House’s response to this life-threatening pandemic.”
Sorry, but people deserve to know where the virus originated because, hopefully, then the Chinese government will feel pressured into getting serious about preventing its citizenry from trading and eating wild animals.
Joe Biden, who has all but sewn up the nomination, doesn’t have an especially bright record when it comes to combating viral pandemics. As vice president in the Obama administration, he helped oversee the spread of not just one but two deadly illnesses throughout the U.S. and yet still put nothing in place so that they, or any future administration, would be better prepared to handle another one.
And yet, Biden helpfully hopped on Twitter last week to call Trump’s handling of the crisis “xenophobic fear-mongering.”
Do any of these people listen to themselves when they speak?
Yeah, the Trump administration has done a terrible job at distributing more test kits that the states need for rapid diagnosis. But who wouldn’t take a delayed test over Democrats’ insistence that “social justice” is more important than saving lives and saving jobs?
