Baker has a good point. They’re opening up tattoo parlors and restaurants in Georgia and he’s banning non-existent immigrants from entering the US when the whole world is on lockdown. It’s hard to think of a policy more ineffectual in the crisis that is as nakedly xenophobic and political.
I am increasingly convinced that Stephen Miller is really running Trump these days. His coronavirus rallies every day feature a long, tedious speech in the beginning which I’m sure most people tune out because it’s delivered in Trump’s halting, grade-school level reading style that puts you to sleep. But if you do listen to what he’s saying it’s almost all lies (of course) but is also full of crass, “American carnage” style rhetoric, even when he’s just reading off long lists of non-existent accomplishments.
Trump may have seen something on TV that made him decide in the middle of the night to ban all immigrants. But you can bet that Miller’s been pounding that drum for a long time. This is his chance to “purify” America and he wants to grab it.