I'm not in the US or an America, but my (retired), Father is and for the sake of the people around him and his family I hope this is the point where the American political system - and Republicans in particular - realise that their ideologies are dead.
In the UK we saw an Old-Etonian Tory Prime Minister in the space of a couple of weeks:
- Effectively nationalise a huge chunk of private industry by offering to subsidise 80% of all salaries up to £30k/year
- Delay tax payments for businesses, and offer up to 15% of GDP in loans and grants to help keep them alive
- Renationalise the train industry (privatising it and others was a hallmark of Thatcher's period in power)
- Accept that their planned immigration policy post-Brexit is now probably dead in the water because who knew that "low skilled workers" like cleaners and agricultural workers would be useful?
- Severely curtail free movement and enterprise by shutting every pub, restaurant, cinema, theatre and cafe across the UK as well as almost every shop that isn't a pharmacy or food shop
- Become champion supporters of an NHS they were - until recently - trying to sell bit off of
Politics here has changed forever, and likely for the better (assuming the sanctions on free movement and enterprise are temporary and not a back door for more draconian measures). For the sake of the most vulnerable in America, I hope it's the same there too.
And maybe - just maybe - it's time everybody took another look at the UBI debate, again.