The epidemic escalates in 50 states, and Trump’s approval rating rises instead of falling. Why are the American elites so blind?

The number of confirmed cases in the United States has exceeded 400,000, but Trump is still acting "randomly" and has not focused on epidemic prevention and control. The epidemic is escalating, but Trump is asking people in various states to resume work as soon as possible. It is obvious that he wants money rather than life. And Trump, who has been so messy, has seen his approval rating rise instead of falling during the epidemic, rising from 51 to 68, the highest during his term, an increase of 17 points. Why do American elites let Trump do whatever he wants? Because Trump and they are on the same front, both represent the will of capital and hope that the United States will restore economic order as soon as possible.

The epidemic in the United States continues to escalate, but Trump wants to resume work. In the face of media doubts and outside condemnation, Trump bluntly said: "If the economy fails, more people will die than the virus." ?This sentence expresses the thoughts of American capitalists. What is the elite in the United States? Of course they are capitalists, and what capitalists value most is the economy. Without the economy, there is no talking about capital. Trump himself is a businessman. He also needs a stable economic environment to run his business. At the same time, he is also a politician and knows the connection between economy and politics. If the U.S. economy shuts down, then he will definitely not be able to serve as president. Went down.

So in the final analysis, Trump and the American elite are actually grasshoppers on a rope, so these so-called elites need to support all Trump’s decisions to stimulate the economy. In their eyes, population decline does not mean decline, but economic stagnation will definitely lead to decline. In other words, the outbreak of the epidemic will cost the lives of some Americans, but economic stagnation will cost the lives of all Americans. Therefore, Trump Pu called on people across the country to return to their posts.

But in fact, Trump’s plan is only welcomed by the capitalists, but the people will not. Who dares to imagine that a social economy can operate in an epidemic outbreak, so Trump’s support rate has dropped again. It started to decline, currently down to 47.1, and it can be predicted that his approval rating will continue to decline in the future. But Trump will not change his mind because he is selfish. Before 2020, Trump had a great chance of winning re-election. None of the Democratic candidates were his opponents. However, the epidemic has hindered his re-election, and he must remove the obstacles.

After Trump came to power, the only political achievements he could achieve were the rise in the stock market and the fall in the unemployment rate, both of which require support from economic development, so Trump will still prioritize the economy. For Trump, economic development is higher than epidemic prevention and control, and striving for re-election trumps all political goals. In early February, the U.S. intelligence agency warned the U.S. government that the virus that emerged this time was very powerful and might be more harmful than the Spanish flu in history. However, Trump had no intention of taking the epidemic seriously. If Trump could learn from our epidemic prevention experience at that time, the United States might not be in the situation it is today, but Trump did not because the cost of sacrificing economic development was too high.