To be clear, hypothetically speaking, I think Hillary Clinton would be doing a much better job managing the Covid-19 crisis if she were President, as a pure administrative matter.
But the GOP would quite possibly have chosen to obstruct every Democratic relief bill rather than pass bills in a bipartisan fashion as we’ve seen over the past few weeks.
Recall how right-wingers raised hell for months and years against HRC over relatively trivial matters like Benghazi and email-gate, and have even taken to making stuff up out of whole cloth about Epstein, “suiciding,” etc. Deapite the fact she hasn’t held any office for 3+ years.
No conspiracy is too outlandish to attribute to “the witch.”
So, with all the necessary social restrictions we’re seeing now, all the conspiracies right-wingers already have about HRC would have been amped up to 11.
Assuming HRC or another Democratic President, I think there’s a real possibility the conservative-led protests we’re already seeing against the state-imposed quarantines would have gotten a lot more heated and rowdier. Perhaps we’d even be seeing armed rebellion at this point.
I fear for what these concerted disinformation campaigns have done to our politics and ability to respond to real crises regardless of who is in power.
