The elderly are among the GOP’s most reliable voters. The party also professes to be “pro-life.” The suggestion by GOP politicians and supporters that the elderly should sacrifice themselves for the GDP (a false choice, given that consumer confidence in the face of millions of virus deaths would be zero) is consequently all the more striking.
What does it mean? In a nutshell, that Trump’s crass materialism and worship of the stock market has taken over the GOP, and that the man on golf cart’s political survival is a matter of greater concern to GOP leaders than the health and well-being of the American public. Can there be any greater indictment of the party than that?