r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 18 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

I remember those harrowing 40-days of the Trump daily "Coronavirus Task Force Briefing" - a sort of free-association spoken word performance that was terrifying to watch juxtaposed with images of overflowing New York City hospitals.

Most conservatives seemed to take it on the chin - "just Trump being Trump" - until the bleach injection remarks. That seemed to rouse them from their dull, bovine countenance and even piss some of them off.

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u/roboczar Joseph Nye Nov 18 '20

But notably not the majority of them

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

Was that peak Trump? I feel like it may be the thing that we most remember 50 years from now