How coronavirus could cost Trump his base — or turn him into a Republican champion for Democrats’ programs

On Rainey Street, one of Austin’s premier party districts, Little Brother Bar propped up a sign just before the city’s famed South by Southwest festival was canceled. It read: “Went to SXSW & all I got was this coronavirus.”

Like so many other small businesses — and they don’t come much tinier than Little Brother, with room for just eight customers — the spread of the virus knocked a hole in its bottom line.