While the stances, mayor John Cooper of Nashville, Tennessee is taking, appear increasingly bizarre, more of his constituents are finally waking up.
Last night, Cooper issued a 10pm curfew, leaving many Nashville residents stranded, without being allowed to go home or risk being arrested. This came after a rally, which mayor Cooper himself had promoted, saw the courthouse and City Hall, as well as countless businesses set on fire amid widespread violence and destruction.
Other city leaders, such as former mayoral candidate Professor Carol Swain, and city councilmembers, had warned the mayor of the potential violence that was looming. Warnings the mayor choose to ignore.
As his proposed 32% tax hike is threatening to chase away a large number of the businesses and residents who survived his ban on business and “safer-at-home”-order without going bankrupt or moving, and as Cooper is still not lifting all of the Covid-restrictions, despite empty hospitals, and despite Cooper himself not observing six feet distance at yesterday’s rally, many Nashvillians had enough.