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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative Media Is Really Struggling With the Possibility That Trump Killed Herman Cain
Conservative Media Is Really Struggling With the Possibility That Trump Killed Herman CainThe idea that Cains death shouldn't be politicized is absurdand impossible.
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How did Herman Cain die? Tweets commemorating the former presidential candidate and pizza magnate, including from President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, didnt mention a cause of death. They said he was an American success story and a great friend who just happened to die of something.
As someone who briefly led the Republican presidential primary in 2012, Cain is arguably the most famous American to die of Covid-19. He was also an inveterate culture warrior who opposed mask mandates and amplified skepticism of the dangers of coronavirus. Nine days before he tested positive for the virus, he was filmed without a mask in a tight crowd at Donald Trumps Tulsa rally. (At least eight White House staffers involved in the rally have tested positive for the virus.) It is entirely reasonable to propose that Trump, as well as the entire Republican industry built around resisting basic anti-virus safety protocols, bear some responsibility for his preventable death.
But that is a bridge that gets a little too close to reality for Republican politicians and their allies in conservative media, which have claimed that liberals have been polluting Cains memory by politicizing it. As usual, they got it backwards.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158728/conservative-media-really-struggling-possibility-trump-killed-herman-cain
Between hawking brain pills, Ben Shapiro made the case that people who wear masks also die. There are plenty of people dying of this who have been wearing masks and have been being careful, he said. So spare me some of the crocodile tears on behalf of people who really are not happy with Herman Cains politics. Within minutes of Cains death, the right-wing website The Blaze had collected a series of tweets from people pointing out a simple factthat the former presidential candidate had died of coronavirustitled, Liberals waste absolutely zero time politicizing Herman Cains death and blaming Trump.
The Washington Examiners Byron York, meanwhile, told his readers to ignore the fact that Cain had died from Covid-19. Like everything else these days, he wrote, Cains death was immediately discussed in a Trump-anti-Trump context. It would be preferable and more humane, he insisted, to use Cains death as an occasion to ... remember Herman Cain. For York, this included a conversation the two had about pizza crusts during the 2012 campaign.
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Conservative Media Is Really Struggling With the Possibility That Trump Killed Herman Cain (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Aug 2020
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Dont worry, they will figure out a way to not only NOT blame traitor but before they are done
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2020
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)1. Dont worry, they will figure out a way to not only NOT blame traitor but before they are done
traitor will be the reason Herman managed to live as long as he did.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)2. The reality death punch is coming for you, conservative losers
just keep waving your guns and Gadsen flag as you stampede to your local all you can eat buffet to wolf down chicken fried steak
brewens
(13,620 posts)3. Hell yes we will politicize COVID killing anyone like Cain. He politicized the virus by making
a big display of not taking any precautions. So now we're supposed to let his idiocy go because he died? Not a chance!