Nikki Haley denounces a relatively tiny amount of assistance for arts groups hurt by coronavirus closures. She forgets that the arts employ people too.
She could have objected to the White House’s reluctance to spend $1 billion on life-saving ventilators, but that would have put her in President Trump’s Twitter cross-hairs. She commendably stepped down from the board of Boeing in protest of its coronavirus bailout bid. But she had little else to say on Twitter about the proposed $500 billion corporate slush fund that uses taxpayer dollars to bail out private companies and their exorbitantly paid CEOs.
What really offends Haley is the inclusion of a cheapskate tip for the arts and the humanities in the stimulus bill.$25 mil for the Kennedy CenterHow many more people could have been helped with this money?In terms of the whole package, it’s the equivalent of a waitress at a diner being left a penny after working a 14-hour shift. But perhaps Haley’s right to begrudge this relatively trivial outlay.
Trump cynically professed his love for “the poorly educated” during his 2016 presidential campaign. And the president’s dutiful Republican Party understands that election victories hinge on keeping voters angry, distracted and misinformed. The possible outbreak of critical thinking frightens Trump stalwarts more than the explosion of COVID-19 across our land. Theas Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo has obediently taken to calling it, is now made in the U.S.A. The president can take full credit for making us No. 1 in coronavirus cases anywhere in the world, including China. Say what you will about Trump’s leadership, but his dithering, denial and double talk have gotten the job done.
A diagnosis must be made: The country is culturally sick as well as physically ill. The condition is chronic, and Haley and her side would like to keep it that way. They want the world to adopt their partisan glasses so that even the science of epidemiology can be spun by Fox propagandists.
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