Actually, it was state governors who shut down the economy. Trump closed the borders, which impacted about 20% of the airlines' traffic.
Technical you are correct. And I believe the State of Alaska never did shut down, but do you really believe they would have if it wasn't by the direction of the Feds? You are technically correct, in fact I believe Alaska never did shut down, but they did so at the request, and guidelines, set out by the Feds, and CDC.
Oh please. I'd say airline employees swing 60% liberal, 40% conservative, so at best there are 40,000 votes that would be at risk, which is a rounding error spread out across four states.
And IL going red? As much as I'd love to see that happen, I'm not holding my breath. HRC won the state by 600,000 votes in 2016, so unless 50% of the black/Latino voters in the City of Chicago suddenly shift their vote to Trump over all the violence and Lightfoot's poor leadership, it ain't happening.
Yeah, but you don't do CPR for five months....
Exactly!....... To bring back the economy you have to jump start it!
It would be a disruption to the employees of that airline, but I suspect the country and even the cities where AA has hubs would be just fine. Traffic is down at least 50%, so we could probably lose two major airlines and still have capacity left if the remaining two did some increased service into the former airline hubs not to mention AS/B6/F9/NK filling in the gaps.