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🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Corona trutherism is rampant on the right. They doubt how many people it’s killed. They protest against staying at home. They want to fire Fauci. They are a mess. The right’s impulse to doubt media, experts, and truth is now endangering lives. Plus what’s the matter with Kanye??? Democracyish.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracyish. |
0:12.6 | I'm Tore. |
0:13.5 | And I'm Danielle Moody. |
0:14.8 | And we're coming to you on a very strange day when there is a march going on in Michigan, people protesting the governor's |
0:27.4 | stay-at-home order. |
0:29.0 | This is part of a series of similar protests from the right across the country. |
0:35.7 | Trump supporters protesting the stay-at-home orders of various |
0:41.1 | governors and mayors. |
0:44.0 | Part of a right-wide movement to say the lockdown has been too long, we must get back to work, |
0:53.3 | enough of this, we. Enough of this. |
0:54.5 | We're tired of this, which ties into this whole sort of right-wing corona skepticism, which |
1:02.5 | became corona trutherism, where they doubt how many people have actually died, how |
1:09.5 | scared we should be of this thing, whether or not it's actually real. |
1:15.1 | This is bizarre. |
1:16.8 | I don't know how, I do know how, but I don't know how we got to politicizing this medical situation to where the right is saying, enough of this, we've got to get back to |
1:30.2 | work. And like, yeah, I want to get back to work and life as normal. But I need the doctors to say |
1:38.5 | that this is okay. And I was just reading a piece of Ed Young's upcoming Atlantic piece about the second piece |
1:45.8 | that Ed Young wrote. This is not going to be a quick return to normal after a couple of weeks. |
1:53.2 | We're going to be in this in some form or fashion for a year or two or maybe even three. |
2:03.5 | And we've been in it like a month, and they're like, enough already. |
2:07.6 | And I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. |
2:10.8 | Yeah, I mean, look, one, I guess stupidity is contagious, is what I'm understanding. |
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