Is it genetic or upbringing?

[PeterB]

pdq wrote:
Nature or nature, or both?

Eric Trump claims coronavirus is Democratic hoax

In an interview with Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro [he said] "And guess what, after November 3, coronavirus will magically, all of a sudden, go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen.”

Seriously, has he just heard this so many times from daddy that he believes it, or is this a sign of some hard-wired propensity toward magical thinking?

Stupid is as stupid does.

I really don't understand this description of the virus as a "hoax". When pressed, Trump and company claim that it's not that he's referred to the virus as a hoax, rather the Democratic response to the virus is a "hoax". (Even that makes no sense... apparently these characters do not know what an actual hoax is...)

Regardless, for a "hoax", or whatever you mean by that, it has killed an awful lot of people...