Trump’s COVID-19 Motto: It’s the Economy, Stupid

Sam Heath
The Polis
Published in
7 min readMay 20, 2020

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A large model of the coronavirus.
Image from the Kansas City Magazine

When the Guiding Light Is Bills Over Bodies

America has 5% of the world’s population, yet 25% of the world’s prisoners. This is mass incarceration. We incarcerate more of our citizens than any civilization in the history of humanity.

A similar statistic should haunt us. America still has 5% of the world’s population yet about

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Sam Heath
The Polis

Husband, father, teacher, Charlottesville resident. Speak truth to power.