If you listen carefully, Donald Trump is signalling his supporters they are entitled to attend Easter Services in April — and the only thing stopping them are the “so-called experts” with pointy heads and Liberals & “fake media” who want to prolong “shelter in place” to deliberately destroy the economy before the next election.
I’ve been to Easter morning church services in the heart of Trump country: an all-white Protestant congregation in small-town rural Tennessee. On Easter the church is packed-to-the-gills over-capacity. Nobody stays home — church ladies drag reluctant bubba husbands to the pew, feeble grannies who no longer attend weekly are helped to church by others in the family.
It is literally shoulder-to-shoulder: people scrunch over to make room for one or two more at the end of the pew. social distance is more like six-tenths of an inch rather than six feet. When the hymns start everyone is expelling vast quantities of air through wide-open mouths while heads lean in as two or three people share a hymn book. Over the course of the service the air gets increasingly warm and moist. At the end, the parishioners are often encouraged to hug or shake hands with the person on either side of them.
This year, of course, there is a new element to these services: while the congregation is celebrating the Resurrection, the virus celebrates its best opportunity to colonise new hosts since first arriving in the community.
In many parts of America this kind of gathering is already prohibited. It looks like Trump is trying to conjure up a little bit of a reality show spectacle by encouraging his base to go to church anyway — just to show the Libtards that the deep state can’t keep them from God’s house. A massive act of MAGA civil disobedience to mobilize Trumpist cultural warriors.
I cannot see any Red-State, bible-belt governor (even a Democrat) sending the State Police out to churches on Easter Morning to stand on the front steps and bar worshippers from entering on the holiest day of the year.
If Trump Nation does go to Easter services in the millions, there will be three political consequences.
- If millions of Trumpists heed his call and attend Easter Services, hundreds of thousands will — unfortunately — die after being duped into risking their lives by America’s greatest con-man. The dead will not be at the ballot box voting for Trump
- Friends and relatives of those who died after being encouraged to celebrate Easter at church as an act Trump-inspired defiance will finally have the scales fall from their eyes “We listened to the President and now my husband's dead.” They may not vote democrat, but they probably won’t be rushing out to the polls either
- Outside of Trump country, tens of millions of Americans will be horrified at a President whose political stunt sentenced hundreds of thousands of Americans to a lonely (no visitors in quarantined hospital), terrifying (drowning is a horrible way to go) and unnecessary death.
Let’s hope that somebody in the Whitehouse who has Trump’s ear can convince him this stunt is a political time bomb that will backfire on him. If they can’t talk him out of this, he should be charged with Crimes Against Humanity by the incoming Democratic federal Attorney General
