Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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The coronavirus pandemic and our nation’s response to it will be a major factor in the 2020 election.

Consider a rhetorically brilliant move from our history: Democrats coined the term “Hoovervilles” to describe the shantytowns that resulted from President Herbert Hoover’s inability to provide relief to thousands of Americans during the Great Depression.

The challenge now for the Democrats and Joe Biden is to use vivid rhetorical images to prevent voters from reelecting President Donald Trump. Part of that strategy might include the use of photos of food lines, bodies being stored in refrigerated trucks and relatives who could not be with their loved ones at the end of life.

Effective use of rhetoric can help voters feel the health and economic pain that Americans now are suffering—realities that Trump denies, ignores, downplays or, to use the president’s favorite pastime, “plays through.”

Richard Cherwitz, Austin

Note from KBJ: Shorter Cherwitz: "We can't win on substance [especially since our candidate is a senile imbecile], so let's try to win with rhetoric." Donald Trump will be re-elected in a landslide.

CNN's Brooke Baldwin is freaking out because looters got near her neighborhood last night. Don't you love it? What's the old expression? A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. Welcome to conservatism, Brooke.

…AND THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 2, 2020

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President Trump's appearance at a Washington church is being derided as a "photo op." Here is one of Abraham Lincoln's many photo ops. Click to enlarge.

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

To the editor:

We are in the middle of a pandemic. Millions of people face permanent job loss. We are facing a type of poverty unknown to masses of Americans. Racism has returned to us disguised as a recreational sport.

Yet, Trump plays on Twitter like the emperor Nero is said to have fiddled on the violin during the Great Fire of Rome.

Failure is not pretty, but you have to look at it to find a solution. Trump is not up to the job.

Marcella Hill, Los Angeles

Note from KBJ: If the media weren't lying about President Trump and distorting everything he says and does, he wouldn't need Twitter, Marcella. It sounds like you're mad that he speaks directly to the American people. Eighty million people a day hear what he says.