[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Lastly, tying things together in my head.

Large corporate stores were unaffected by State orders,
they continued on.
But smaller, independently owned businesses, offering the same service as the “big boys” were shuttered, many permanently.
Has the State, through its “orders” worked in conjunction (colluded) with larger business to create a “captive” customer base and subsequently established a monopoly on behalf of the larger interstate businesses?
Tammany Hall politics?

[zzeeman]

It is all that you are pointing out and then some... virtually all of what we saying playing out was carefully planned... a lot of people spent a long time developing this plan...

And sadly, it is succeeding beyond their rosiest expectations... thanks in large part to a segment of our society that seems to relish living in fear, and having gubmint do the "thinking" for them....

[gogeo]

I believe small business owners lean Trump.

The RAT party hamstrung Tea Party groups from gaining non profit status, limiting their influence in the 2012 elections.

Would a party this cynical seek to hamstring small business people, limiting their ability to financially support PDJT?

[quantim]

You probably have seen this today too:

Michigan bars, restaurants will require diners' names, phone numbers starting Monday