As demagogue and mentally unfit authoritarian Donald "Absolute Authority" Trump and his cult are agitating for the premature "re-opening" of business around the country, a new NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll shows that 60% of American voters are more worried that relaxing stay-at-home restrictions will cause a reemergence of COVID-19 than the 32% who are worried about not "re-opening" the economy soon.
In addition, 52% say they disapprove of Trump's botched handling of the pandemic, with the same percentage saying that they don't trust what Trump says about the coronavirus. State governors fare much better as to whom the voters trust, with 66% trusting them. The poll also measured growing public concern about the virus:
"In March, 53 percent of voters said they were worried that someone in their immediate family would catch the disease. Now it’s 73 percent.Meanwhile, right-wing organizations are sponsoring poorly-attended (but media- saturated) astroturf protests to demand that the virus be allowed to spread in America. Right- wing leaders are telling Trump that he has to restart the economy within a month, or face defeat in November, something that Trump fears above all else, certainly more that the probability that COVID-19 would spread as a result.
Also in March, a combined 26 percent said the coronavirus has changed their day-to-day life in a 'very' or 'fairly' major way. Now it’s 77 percent.
And in a CNBC poll conducted in early April by the same polling firms, 27 percent said they personally know someone infected by the coronavirus. Now, just more than a week later, it’s 40 percent."
The NBC News / WSJ poll was conducted April 13 -15, and has a margin of error of 3.3 %.
