Reaching out?

Daily Kos

Reaching Out to Trump’s Base

To the Editor:

As progressives, we heard regularly in 2016 that we needed to reach out to Trump supporters and try to understand their position after Donald Trump won. 

Now that Joe Biden has won and Republicans have badly lost the popular vote again, shouldn’t Trump supporters be the ones reaching out trying to understand progressives?

David VanSpeybroeck

Lake Oswego

Oregon

Ideology virus brings death to the Dakotas

Vermillion South Dakota last week

Frank Bruni today in the NY Times:

...a series of mid-November tweets from a South Dakota emergency room nurse, Jodi Doering, went viral. 

Doering was reeling from tending to dying Covid-19 patients who continued to insist that the coronavirus was some kind of hoax.

They “scream at you for a magic medicine” and warn that Joe Biden will ruin America even as they’re “gasping for breath,” she wrote. 

She added: “They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that ‘stuff’ because they don’t have Covid because it’s not real.”

“They stop yelling at you when they get intubated,” she wrote. “It’s like a horror movie that never ends”...