Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.

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      Covid also did a number on Black and Hispanic service workers who were called essential and forced to go to work but not paid hazard pay.

      Still a bit salty about that. To put it mildly.

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        Same here in Germany, service workers were called essential, applauded & called heroes. But they didn’t get the important part, more money.

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      Covid has been devastating and has likely affected more R voters, but I don’t think it will be enough to cause an electoral shift.

      Red states have had a lower life is expectancy for years. Covid just added to that effect, but I don’t think it’s that much worse than any of the other confounding effects (like lower access to affordable health care or healthy food). On the contrary, it’s probably much less than that.