On this, I've been extremely torn, because my gut instinct is to wish someone better health if they were sick even if they would tear out my throat at the first ability to. It's not about the person receiving the well wishes, it's the person giving them, that they are resisting apathy and malice for a moment of empathy in a world where such is in short supply. But Trump is also a uniquely bad actor even by the standards of the time and for whom 200,000+ deaths can reasonably be attributed to due to his sheer unwillingness to engage in basic control measures and active promotion of flouting those recommendations.
I've seen both condolences and condemnation on social media as well as this thread. Ironically, what bugs me more than anything is tone policing by one side over the other. Many are grieving for the losses of loved ones and others both from the disease and the white surpemest violence that he has all but directly condoned (at least until the debate where he condoned a white power group) and their anger and rage at the man is completely justified. Others are grappling with their cherished beliefs that one should act with malice against another no matter what wrongs they have done to you, and for them well wishes are a form of resistance to the cruelty the fascist movement has completely consumed with GOP with. Neither side has the moral high ground, all they have is their own personal moral convictions.
As for me, I have no desire to make US politics any more a bloodsport than it already is. I wish the President of the country I call home a speedy recovery and I wish the GOP be obliterated as a viable political party in this election and every one since.
