Before C19 we could pretend that the GOP wasn’t a death cult, and that traditional ethics still applied. For example, it wasn’t fine to openly wish for your political opponents to die in large numbers, or to shrug off the collateral casualties that would entail. But the president has explicitly and repeatedly argued that sickness and death should be visited on Democratic strongholds, and has actively pursued policies and programs to achieve that end, without a peep of objection from his party. In short, his administration and party are waging polite biological warfare; the result will be hundreds of thousands dead and tens of millions of lives dragged down by years of economic dysfunction. And I’m supposed to turn the other cheek and indulge in some empty exercise in performative piety about how terrible it is that they’ll hold their convention in Charlotte? F*ck that. I hope C19 consumes this building and everyone in it.