On top of that, the messages from the White House on the uninsured have been ridiculously mixed. Trump has refused to open ACA enrollments to the millions of uninsured, as well as the people who are on Trumpcare, the crappy no-coverage plan the administration has pushed. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that the newly unemployed and uninsured can sign up for Obamacare, which is true. He left out the part about how he and his boss have been working to systematically destroy that and take coverage away from more than 20 million people on the exchanges and millions more on Medicaid expansion.

The ACA ensures that the eventual vaccine for novel coronavirus would be free for people with health insurance. Trump wants to end that. The existence of the ACA means that people up to age 26 can still be covered by their parents' plan. Trump wants to end that. The ACA means that people who recover from novel coronavirus but have lasting mental and physical health issues from the disease could be denied treatment because it's a preexisting condition.

While a Republican donor is starting to panic about all this, Republican operatives remain oblivious to the true horror of the situation. Like Matt Gorman, a Republican who says that the GOP will "stay on offense" in the 2020 campaign against both Medicare for All and a Biden-style expansion of the ACA. What experience does Gorman have? He "worked for the House GOP campaign arm in 2018." When the Republicans lost the majority. Because of Trumpcare. Not only are Republicans utterly incapable of experiencing empathy and human understanding—they can't learn.