Lucian K. Truscott on Political Effects of Covid Death Rates: "Difficult lesson to learn for Republicans that dead people don’t vote"

National Bureau of Economic Research study graphic showing excess deaths by political party throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, in Marty Schladen, "Study: More Republicans than Democrats likely died of COVID" 

A few days back, I posted a link to commentary by Jonathan V. Last about how the much higher and empirically proven Covid death rate in heavily Republican counties may be affecting elections (dead voters do not usually vote). Lucian K. Truscott takes a close look at the data regarding this: 

Money Makes the World Go…. Commentary on the Role of Big $$ in Political Life (with Asides about Twitter and Covid)

Joseph Keppler cartoon, "The Bosses of the Senate," from Puck, 1889, at Wikimedia Commons

Robert Reich explains succinctly who exacerbates the culture-war tensions in the US and why that "who" is doing this: