"One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another. ...

It is not a new thing for Republicans to treat disasters in blue areas as less deserving of our collective attention than disasters in red areas."

~ Greg Sargent

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https://newrepublic.com/article/180286/magas-ugly-hateful-response-bridge-horror-get-worse

MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse

If they can try to turn the tragic Baltimore bridge collapse into a culture war, they’ll go anywhere—hurting their own people in the process.

^{The New Republic}