Watching Joe Biden speaking in Miami. I believe to an SEIU gathering. Impressive speech that is, among other things, bringing out the racial and class impact of the Covid crisis as well as outlining a comprehensive economic plan to address the economic implosion.

I hope it’s not lost on the public how reckless and life endangering Trump’s drive on Sunday was. To steal a phrase from John Prine. “He ain’t human.”

What is notable about Trump isn’t that he caught the virus he said would disappear and affect virtually nobody, but that he spread the virus through his reckless and callous rhetoric and actions long before he caught it.

Appeals that are framed in a positive way – rather than negatively – and in a language that is part of the day to day vernacular and experience of everyday people – rather than in the language and experience of the left – generally resonate with far more people. And isn’t that the point – to reach people on a political and rhetorical ground that they are comfortable with and conversant in.

And yet, in too many instances, this approach is dismissed, pushed aside by the revolutionary phrase or radical slogan.

The announcement that Trump (and Melania) have the coronavirus adds uncertainty to this already hyper fraught election and raises some questions that can’t be answered now anyway. But what it doesn’t do is change the stakes or lessen even a smidgen or the overarching imperative to get out the vote for Biden-Harris and down ticket Democrats and then to protect it.