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Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile and Aoife O'Donovan: "The Trappings"

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Dangerman8/03/2020 6:01:00 am PDT

Today’s electoral-vote.com
Republicans in two paragraphs


Republicans have a problem, but it is largely of their own making.
. If they were simply to ask: “What can we do to boost Trump’s reelection?”, the conclusion would be to pass the $3 trillion bill the House passed in May and do it today. That will help individuals keep up their spending and pay their rent, as well as allowing states and cities to avoid laying off teachers, police officers, and other workers.

But one of the core beliefs that few Republicans ever question is that poor people are lazy and won’t work unless they are forced to work by actual starvation. To them, if the government gives poor people $600 a week for another few months, few, if any, of them will seek work, which will hurt their employers. There is no evidence that many people refused to go back to their old jobs (when available) on account of the $600 they were getting. They knew very well that the $600 payments were temporary but refusing to go back to work when that was possible meant losing that job forever. But punishing poor people for being poor is so ingrained in Republican thought that they can’t break the grip, even when sticking with that view badly hurts their party