Martin Walsh
Democrats sure aren’t letting a crisis go to waste.
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Eric Holder, who served as former President Barack Obama’s attorney general, said the quiet part out loud this week and admitted he saw coronavirus as “an opportunity” to permanently change the way Americans voted.
“Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access,” Holder said in an interview with TIME magazine.
He called for a “sea change” in voting systems, allowing Americans to vote from home, using prepaid mail-in ballots and unlimited absentee voting. Holder did not discuss concerns about voter fraud in his interview but posited that any special exceptions made to the voting process during the coronavirus should remain permanent.
“It would be foolhardy to take these pro-democracy measures off the table after we get on the other side of the virus,” he said. “These are changes that we should make permanent because it will enhance our democracy.”
Team Obama has been out in full force against Trump lately.
Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice — who infamously lied when she claimed the Benghazi terrorists attacks happened because of a “video” — blamed Trump for tens of thousands of deaths that will happen because of the coronavirus.
“This administration was not interested in pandemics. It was not prepared for pandemics. We now know that even during the Trump administration there were lots of reports, lots of warnings,” Rice told the Washington Post before outlining what she would have done and then blamed Trump for tens of thousands of deaths.
“Rather than moving immediately from very early January to do the things that we know we have to do, get in place the testing capacity, scale it up so that it’s widely available,” Rice said.
“Surge the purchase and the distribution of personal protective equipment, ventilators, masks, gloves, gowns, and get that to our hospital systems, build out a bed capacity, call back medical professionals,” Rice continued.
“All these things that states and locals are now doing on the fly. These are the things that we know we needed to do and do at the outset,” she said. “And so, they didn’t do that. They waited two months.”
“It’s not the one month that the New York Times had a headline, ‘A Wasted Month,’ it was a wasted two months, Jonathan,” she said. “And those two months have meant the difference between many tens of thousands of Americans dying who might otherwise not have died.”
“He has demonstrated utter lack of leadership, utter incompetence,” she continued. “And he’s been profoundly dishonest about the nature of the threat to the American people by downplaying it, by dismissing it, by comparing it to the flu.”
“He has misled the American people to such an extent that lives have been lost in the process,” added Rice.
“Whether that’s because he didn’t care or he was trying to downplay the problem and buoy his electoral prospects mistakenly, or whether it was to buck up the markets, or because he doesn’t care… I don’t know what it was. I just know that he has cost tens of thousands of American lives,” she said.
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Perhaps they are freaking out that it’s very possible Trump cruises to a second term in office.