Steve's collective ad hominem

At his blog today, Steve M. tells us how he really feels.

Republicanism: Still invisible.

Steve notes the grim prognosis, we can expect 60 % to 70 % of Americans will be infected no matter what.

And he notes the continuing professional consensus that favors lockdown and extensive measures to inhibit the spread of infection.

But he reduces Republican leadership dissent from this consensus and rejection of the lockdown regime entirely to deference to the interests of the richest, ignoring the actual anti-lockdown argument entirely and rejecting it purely on this collective ad hominem basis.

And he reduces follower dissent to popular embrace of unidentified crackpot theories about which he says nothing informative at all beyond calling them "crackpot theories".

This is being done on behalf of a sociopathic plutocrat class that has no qualms about sacrificing thousands of American lives for increased profits. 

It's being embraced by most of the officeholders and other officials of one political party, the Republican Party, who have now demonstrated that they're willing to kill ordinary Americans if the result is that the rich get richer and the libs are owned. 

The rank-and-file of the Republican Party enthusiastically supports the ending of lockdowns because it increasingly embraces crackpot theories about the virus, gleaned not just from fringe websites, but from Fox News and from the president of the United States.

His claims about the motives of the GOP, leaders and followers, are unsupported and blindly narrow, though of course not entirely wrong.

And there actually is an argument on their side that we need to be aware of.