Trump's appalling failure is only the most visible part of a vast ocean of right-wing dysfunction. For conservative zealots and media figures, the pandemic is quickly becoming just another culture war battleground — an axis of postmodern symbolic conflict, another vent for bottomless grievance, and fuel for a screeching victimhood complex. The practical effect will be to fuel infection and hamstring economic recovery. It's a stark obstacle before fixing this or any other crisis.
Nothing gets their blood flowing like playing martyr before imaginary liberal tyranny. Casting oneself as Anne Frank for having to wear a two-dollar cloth mask at Walmart during the worst pandemic in a century would be a stretch for most people in the world, but not American movement conservatives.
The conservative victimhood complex has made America impossible to govern
It's an obstacle to fighting coronavirus or any other crisistheweek.com
I prefer poutrage industry, but hysteria industrial complex works equally as well.
Nope. What this virus has done is invaluable. It has exposed and shown how deeply embedded the tyrannical tin pot governors, state level, local officials are ingrained in the US. Make no mistake, these tyrannical authoritarians hate this country and the people to the core.
