Republicans engage in lemmings politics following Donald Trump's stupidity

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I hold these truths to be self-evident:

• People who refuse to wear face masks in busy indoor public spaces are stupid.
• People who believe “no face mask!” is a political statement enhance their stupidity.
• Retailers who decline to require even their employees to wear masks -- often out of a perverted notion of constitutional rights -- put customers at risk, undermine the health and welfare of the community, and that is stupid, too.

Trump and his gaggle of bootlickers have been rattled by polls that show not only his sinking-like-a-stone job approval rating, but also that Democratic standard-bearer Joe Biden beats him by double digits nationwide and in states Trump won in 2016.

Instead, Trump opted for more divisive pandering when he could have embraced an inclusive strategy to encourage all Americans to fight the plague, not each other. Instead, the nation confronts the ridiculous situation -- aided and abetted by an incompetent and corrupt president -- of politicizing something as efficacious as wearing face masks in a pandemic. His image belongs on a $3 bill.

Maine Writer Post Script-