Robert B. Reich: The public, the personal and the utter hypocrisy of the GOP
Donald Trump and many Republicans insist that the decisions whether to wear a mask, go to a bar or gym, or work or attend school during a pandemic should be personal. Government should play no role.
Yet they also believe that what a woman does with her own body, or whether same-sex couples can marry, should be decided by government.
It’s a tortured, topsy-turvy view of what’s public and what’s private. Yet
