How do you deal with people like these....four paragraphs that boggle the mind

[spanone]

The president’s diagnosis, announced early Friday morning, prompted some changes, like White House staffers suddenly wearing masks and the Trump campaign turning some events into virtual ones. As a rush of senators tested positive, the Republican-led Senate canceled its votes for the next two weeks.

But there was no sweeping transformation in the way many of the president’s most devoted supporters view the virus — and no sense of urgency to alter their behavior to better protect themselves. The president’s many arguments about the coronavirus — that it was mild for all but those with preexisting conditions, that it was overblown by Democrats, that it would fade away on its own — seemed to inoculate many in the Trump camp against rethinking their approach to the virus.

On Saturday, several Republican lawmakers continued to question the effectiveness of masks — which even Trump administration health officials view as essential — and need for mask mandates, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who tested positive for the virus. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), whose state has faced an explosion of cases in recent weeks, appeared maskless at an indoor Sioux City event on the Trump bus tour.

Meanwhile, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) opted to not get tested despite attending a meeting with an infected person, and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) pointed to Trump’s illness as reason for the country to continue to reopen schools and businesses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-supporters-covid/2020/10/03/e3445528-0590-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html

[bdamomma]

1. Ignorant Repigs

still questioning the effectiveness of masks why don't they listen to the health experts and also the Asian countries who wore masks and tested their citizens unlike the US.

[spanone]

2. matt gaetz....???

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) pointed to Trump’s illness as reason for the country to continue to reopen schools and businesses.

[Ilsa]

3. They question the efficacy of a policy they refused to enforce.

They must believe their constituents are stupid.

[Claustrum]

5. Or their constituents are really stupid and repeat every word they say

[exboyfil]

7. +1

No doubt.

[better]

10. I think most of us may still be misidentifying the dynamic at play here.

I think it's not that Republican politicians think their constituents are stupid.
I think it's that Fox "News" KNOWS their constituents, including Republican politicians, ARE stupid.

I am really coming to believe that we've had this all wrong for a long time now.

Fox didn't adopt a Republican bias.
Republicans adopted a FOX bias.

[still_one]

4. Vote them out

[malaise]

6. You sit back and watch them cull their own herd

That is all my friend

[exboyfil]

8. Except for the nurses, doctors, hospital staff

WH staff etc who didn't ask for this idiocy.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. you don't. Ignore. or ridicule