Herman Cain tweets from beyond the grave

Rob Beschizza 5:25 am Thu Aug 13, 2020

Herman Cain "tweeted" banal pro-Trump propaganda until hours before his death of Covid, a grim month-long spectacle seemingly pumped out by political handlers willing to speak with Cain's voice even as that voice ceased to exist. I speculated that the tweets would continue after his death, a melding of Trumpian incompetence, obscenity and indifference. I was asked to stop posting on grounds of Rob He Just Died, but sadly that exortation was not made to whoever is wearing Cain's corpse today on Twitter.

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