COVID-19 is the climax to this 4T

[sbarrera]

The discussion on this post reveals how one important aspect of the Culture War remains unresolved - the proper relationship between government and the economy. The COVID-19 pandemic is obviously a major stress for the system as it is now, but with the partisan divide as wide as ever and there still being a red state/Trump bubble where a significant percentage of the U.S. population believes the Trumpian "everything will be back to normal by Easter" narrative, it remains to be seen if we can really retool our economy to deal with this emergency. It's too bad Sanders washed out of the primaries already, because his perspective would be helpful here. I suppose we might just collapse first, then retool after we count the dead.