PANAMA: Nancy Pelosi was urging her constituents to visit Chinatown in San Francisco. That was February 24.
On March 5, Bill de Blasio was urging New Yorkers to “get out on the town despite coronavirus.”
As late as March 19, Andrew Cuomo was still playing Kevin Bacon in Animal House — “Remain calm, all is well!” he cried, as he got flattened. Cuomo told us “the fear and panic is, if anything, worse than the virus,”.
The primary psychological motivator in the Democratic mind is: I can’t have anyone thinking I’m a racist. This worry warps judgment. It short-circuits all other thinking. Throughout February, the news media and Democrats were warning us that racism was the real threat here. The policy corollary was obvious: For Democrats, borders are always, at best, regrettable necessities. It would surely be inflaming prejudice to shut the door to anyone on the pretext that foreigners might be bringing the virus in with them.
As late as March 13, by which time the best possible containment strategy would have been to place a giant impermeable bubble over the entire New York metro area, The Atlantic was still fretting that the reaction to the virus might give evil right-wingers and populists an excuse to shore up border defenses. The essay in question specifically criticized travel bans (Trump had just announced the partial shutdown from Europe the day before) because they exacerbate prejudice: “Efforts to contain the disease are likely to prove even more futile in places where it is already spreading. In the case of the U.S. travel ban, there is nothing to suggest that restricting European visitors will prevent new cases from emerging: After all, the disease is already there.”
Biden was clearly referring to Trump’s travel ban when he used the term “xenophobia.” He made it obvious when he amplified his thoughts on Medium — “Yesterday, Donald Trump further diminished the United States in the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban” — and when he tweeted that he would reverse the ban.
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On March 5, Bill de Blasio was urging New Yorkers to “get out on the town despite coronavirus.”
As late as March 19, Andrew Cuomo was still playing Kevin Bacon in Animal House — “Remain calm, all is well!” he cried, as he got flattened. Cuomo told us “the fear and panic is, if anything, worse than the virus,”.
The primary psychological motivator in the Democratic mind is: I can’t have anyone thinking I’m a racist. This worry warps judgment. It short-circuits all other thinking. Throughout February, the news media and Democrats were warning us that racism was the real threat here. The policy corollary was obvious: For Democrats, borders are always, at best, regrettable necessities. It would surely be inflaming prejudice to shut the door to anyone on the pretext that foreigners might be bringing the virus in with them.
As late as March 13, by which time the best possible containment strategy would have been to place a giant impermeable bubble over the entire New York metro area, The Atlantic was still fretting that the reaction to the virus might give evil right-wingers and populists an excuse to shore up border defenses. The essay in question specifically criticized travel bans (Trump had just announced the partial shutdown from Europe the day before) because they exacerbate prejudice: “Efforts to contain the disease are likely to prove even more futile in places where it is already spreading. In the case of the U.S. travel ban, there is nothing to suggest that restricting European visitors will prevent new cases from emerging: After all, the disease is already there.”
Biden was clearly referring to Trump’s travel ban when he used the term “xenophobia.” He made it obvious when he amplified his thoughts on Medium — “Yesterday, Donald Trump further diminished the United States in the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban” — and when he tweeted that he would reverse the ban.
Biden and the Democrats Would Have Bungled the Coronavirus Response | National Review
With help from the media, they are shamelessly obscuring their own disastrously misguided instincts.
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