The Lockdown’s Destruction

7/31/20
 
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from The Wall Street Journal,
7/30/20:

Incredibly, some in the media want to repeat the second quarter’s 32.9% plunge in GDP.

Democrats and their media allies have trapped themselves in a contradiction. They are deploring Thursday’s grim second-quarter GDP report even as they demand a repeat of the lockdown that caused the economic catastrophe. What do they expect when government orders Americans to sit in their homes for weeks?

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