The next night Fox News’ Tucker Carlson discussed Patrick’s comments with analyst Brit Hume, who called Patrick’s comments “an entirely reasonable viewpoint.” Hume continued: “We don’t shut down the economy to save every single life that’s threatened by a widespread disease. That Monday night, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick seemed to go full Midsommar-a horror movie about a fictional Swedish death cult that sacrifices their elders-by saying that ”as a senior citizen” he was “all in” on “willing to take a chance on survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves.” The remarks, from a broad range of commentators, illustrate the lengths that Trump supporters are willing to go to back the president, and have led some experts on deadly cults and so called “new religious” movements to note parallels between such organizations and rhetoric voiced by the president and his supporters. “If given the choice between dying and plunging the country I love into a Great Depression, I’d happily die.” When President Trump floated the idea of reopening commerce to stimulate the economy, even at the cost of human lives lost to the coronavirus, he started repeating the phrase that “the cure can’t be worse than the problem itself.” After he used the words in a tweet on Sunday, March 22, some of his biggest backers went on cable news and wrote tweets over the next 48 hours about how they too were ready to die for the Dow, or at the very least sacrifice other people’s lives for it. Check out our most recent coverage of the coronavirus crisis, and subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. The coronavirus is a rapidly developing news story, so some of the content in this article might be out of date.
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