It's crucial that @JoeBiden just offered a scathing indictment of Trump's use of the virus to spread reactionary nationalist panic. It bodes well for the campaign. The idea that our open society is the culprit is nonsense, even in its sophisticated forms:
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@JoeBiden Trump is using coronavirus to fuel his reactionary nationalist fearmongering.
But there are "sophisticated" versions of this argument, too: That the disease somehow undermines the "globalist" impulse.
All of these arguments fall apart under scrutiny:
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But there are "sophisticated" versions of this argument, too: That the disease somehow undermines the "globalist" impulse.
All of these arguments fall apart under scrutiny:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@JoeBiden Our open society is not to blame for the spread of coronavirus. Instead, Biden rightly placed the blame on Trump's serial degradation of facts, science and governing capacity, and incompetent leadership made worse by his cynical downplaying of the crisis:
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