We rethink the week with Valerie Endress, professor of political communications, Rhode Island College; Dean Spiliotis, Civic Scholar and Presidential Scholar at Southern New Hampshire University; Robert Hennelly, investigative reporter for Slack.com, the NJInsider, @stucknation, and for The Chief/Leader, a public employee union journal in NYC; and Rick Newman, lobbyist and former NH state representative.
We discuss the enormous suffering that will ensue between now and Joe Biden’s inauguration if the Trump administration and/or state governors and health officials fail to implement stringent public health measures to protect the populace from the rapid spread of the coronavirus. The consequences will be equally horrific for the U.S. economy and all the human beings working within it if Congress and the states fail to provide a significant relief package that will keep their families afloat as the economy crashes, they lose their jobs, their incomes, their health insurance, and any means of paying for their housing, food and other basic needs.
The new Biden administration, likewise, will have to take immediate action to stem the tide of Covid-19, to support our desperate families, and to stimulate the economy before the recession turns into another great depression.
We also look at the longer-term picture of how the Democrats prevent their disparate “wings” from undermining their ability to govern and how the Republican Party decides to reconstitute itself going forward – with or without Donald Trump.
