Saw that coming

| 11:00 pm EDT April 21, 2020
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A few weeks back, Donald Trump and his allies publicly flirted with a new plan that basically consisted of “kill Grandma to save the economy.” The premise was that we should reopen the country for business, let everyone catch the coronavirus, and whoever ends up dying from it, too bad. Of course the deaths would be disproportionately higher among those who are older and/or frail.

To the surprise of no one, senior citizens aren’t exactly thrilled with Trump’s plan to murder them. Over the past few weeks, Trump’s coronavirus crisis approval rating with senior citizens has dropped by a whopping twenty points over the past few weeks. It’s easy to draw a straight line from Trump’s “kill Grandma” plan to his drop in support among seniors.

The thing is, this is likely to only get worse for Donald Trump. Some Republican Governors are now prematurely reopening their states, with Trump’s blessing. It’s a given that within two weeks, the death tolls in those states will begin spiking. Senior citizens will rightly see this as an assault on their lives – and Trump’s approval numbers with seniors will likely drop even further accordingly.