Kelly Loeffler's latest nonsense exposes the worst of GOP nihilism
Opinion by Greg Sargent
Our country confronts two of its most monumental crises of the modern era. More than 3,300 Americans died of the coronavirus on Wednesday alone. The latest weekly jobless claims are a shocker, totaling nearly 900,000. Hiring is slowing down dramatically. More than 14 million face a cutoff in pandemic-related unemployment benefits.
What is the Republican Party’s answer to this pressing and urgent state of affairs?
Broadly speaking, it runs as follows: Provide the absolute minimum in financial assistance, and only when the political pressure to offer that bare minimum becomes too overwhelming to ignore.
Meanwhile, instead of offering a serious agenda to deal with either crisis, sell the party as a check on a wholly manufactured one: the specter of an impending socialist-antifa Democratic takeover.
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