It’s Time to Rank the Governors Again

7. Brian Kemp

Pray that this guy has a clue.

Here’s a quick look at how mercurial GOP politics work in 2020: Donald Trump is in one mood and suggests that states lift emergency restrictions. The Trumpist governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, tries to show off to Daddy and decides that he’s going to begin reopening his state prematurely. Then Trump is in another mood and says that Kemp is absolutely wrong to reopen his state so soon. A Georgia Senate candidate, Rep. Doug Collins, who desperately wants Trump to like him, picks up on that cue and starts trashing Kemp, too, even though he probably doesn’t disagree with Kemp’s decision whatsoever, and who knows if Trump really does. In any case! It would be easy to call Kemp a dum-dum who has no idea what he’s doing. Maybe he is. But if his mind can’t be changed, and he reopens hair salons, movie theaters, bowling alleys, and every other filthy business in which hands are used to touch things in the next few days, we can only hope he’s smarter than he seems.

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