A recent focus group of New Hampshire Republican voters commissioned by Semafor finds that five of the eight participants who sat for it believed the latest wave of COVID infections is somehow connected to the upcoming elections because that’s how the last one was “rigged.”
“With the ‘plandemic,’ we see it coming again, and there’s a lot of writing on the wall,” said one Granite State Republican. Semafor did not elaborate on why the dumbasses believe this though we would have to guess first and foremost would be the automatic association MAGA voters have between COVID and mail-in voting and thus “cheating.” Separate, but not mutually exclusively, is that any major crisis, particularly one so economically impactful, is by nature going to challenge or disadvantage any incumbent. The key words there being “any incumbent,” meaning that in the real world the emergence of some super-mutated COVID strain is almost certainly going to be more of a plus for Trump than Biden (notwithstanding Trump’s abysmal handling of the pandemic in 2020).
But so aggrieved they are over the original COVID outbreak, coming the year the Orange Caesar had planned on be reannointed, they kind of aren’t thinking rationally. They’re MAGA after all.