Lara Trump is asking the question Reagan used to great effect: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Chris Hayes promptly responded with a montage of news clips from just one day, March 13, 2020, to show just how badly we were off four years ago.
Though Hayes didn’t say so explicitly, the reason Trump lost in 2020 is because he so badly mishandled the Covid crisis. If he had been even halfway competent, if he had been even half willing to listen to the experts, he would have won. So:
We need to remind people WHY we voted him out of office back then.
Take up Lara Trump’s challenge and throw it back in her face.
One other quick thought: Alex Wagner opened her show with a segment on Chris LaCivita, the evil genius behind the Swift Boat ads that sunk John Kerry in 2004, and that were total lies. LaCivita is back, working for Trump. He is the one who cleaned out the RNC today. He will stop at nothing to lie about Biden, to turn his strengths into weaknesses, to smear, to blur, to ruin.
We have to fight on that level. The difference is, we do it with the truth. Where LaCivita lied about Kerry’s Vietnam service, we will shout the truth about Trump’s Covid disaster.
[10:00 PM — Link to Chris Hayes’s video montage.]