Is there anybody that MAGA shouldn't try to discredit and de-legitimize?
An oncology nurse.
"Juror No. 2, who was dismissed Thursday, said she was already facing questions from friends and family after basic details — including her work as an oncology nurse and residence on the Upper East Side — circulated online.
Like other networks, Fox News' Jesse Watters aired a segment Tuesday that highlighted extensive details about Juror No. 2, including her neighborhood, occupation, marital and family status."
Axios, this morning, April 19, 2024
Donald Trump has already prepared half of Americans -- maybe more -- to discount as meaningless a conviction in the New York hush money/election interference case. He and his allies say whatever he did wasn't a crime, that even if it were a crime it shouldn't be prosecuted against anybody, and that it certainly shouldn't be prosecuted against a leading candidate for president. Moreover, they say the judge is biased, so any trial would be as well. Moreover, a jury verdict of guilty, if it comes, would be meaningless because the venue is New York, which is full of Biden voters and liberals, and hardly a place for a fair trial, just because the crime took place there. Besides, the judge is holding court on Fridays, which discourages observant Orthodox Jews, who love Trump, thereby biasing the jury pool. Plus whatever sentence gets handed down will surely be biased because, again, the judge is biased.
Trump and his allies have a message: No one is legitimate to hold him to account for anything. Everyone is flawed. Therefore, no prosecution, trial, conviction, or sentence can change the central premise that Trump is a victim of a rigged system.
Everyone has something "wrong" with them. MAGA media can sneer at everyone for some reason or another. Bankers and lawyers on the jury are elitists and resent Trump's common touch. Blacks are historically Democratic. Hispanics are biased against his crackdown on illegal immigration. People in news and entertainment industries resent Trump's criticism of those industries. People in retail, food service, and other lower-paid occupations are envious of his wealth. Muslims are Muslims, enough said. Young people are pro-Palestine. There is always a toe-hold dismissing that person for presumed bias.
Trump caught a bad break with the woman identified as an "oncology nurse." If she had just been "a nurse," then she might have been accused of being a feminist working in or around abortions. If she were a doctor, then she might be imagined to be a money-grubber concocting fees or pushing vaccinations. If she were a teacher, there would be "woke curriculum" or teachers unions to bash. If she were a nurse and male, there might be some whiff of bending of occupational gender stereotypes. If she lived uptown in Harlem she might be Black or at least "ethnic;" downtown might put her around SoHo and the trendy arts scene; the Upper West Side would confirm her to be uniformly liberal. She avoided all that. What we know is that she is an oncology nurse living in the Upper East Side, like Trump. No one sneers at oncology nurses. It is hard, useful work, requiring education and training, and there is no big money or glamour in it. You think "oncology nurse" and you think compassionate care by somebody with some life-saving smarts. You don't think politics or bias.
Trump and his MAGA allies picked a bad person to intimidate off the jury. In fact, he picked the worst one I can imagine. Trump wants to be the sympathetic victim. He isn't. She is.
Well, heck. I've repeatedly referred to E. coli Republicans: those who rail against the "socialism" that is sewers, water treatment, and food inspection (inter alia).
It's unsurprising that they've allied themselves with cancer.