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Given how you guys do everything he says, all he'd have to do is say the word, and you guys would be masked up and staying home. Leadership isn't limited to mandating. Leadership should inspire people to do the right thing, or at minimum act in their own best interest. Trump could have done nothing and you still would have had a better result. Instead he drove chaos and confusion and partisanship into it. He lead you to make the wrong decisions. That's why you guys have the biggest **** show on the planet right now.
I don't think you're being fair here in saying that all Trump supporters are obedient minions. Maybe it's because they're all academics, but among the people I know well who are Trump supporters, I don't know anybody like that. And I also think that there definitely are unthinking, knee-jerking people on all sides. Nothing to be done about them, but mischaracterizing all on the basis of a noisy or violent few isn't fair, whether you're talking about "cults" or "Nazis" or ______.
The labeling is really counterproductive and diminishes civility on the board, and I wish in advance of November 3rd that everybody would make a personal commitment to being respectful and fair. There are really, really good people, including some of the people I love most in this world, who are on the "wrong" side. I'm sure this is true for most of us, whatever your "side" is.