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Something bad just happened.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked point blank whether our failure to act fast on coronavirus has put us on a course like Italy, which now has over 10,000 cases.

Dr. Fauci declined to answer directly. Just devastating.

New piece:

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Stipulated:

In an important sense, Trump is entirely absent from the conversation about what the federal government must *actually do right now* about coronavirus.

It's nothing but lies and chaos pixie dust. His impact has been uniformly destructive.

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“I don’t know of anyone who thinks there’s a good reason why we would not end up in a very similar position to Italy within two weeks....We could have been preparing for this for two months."

@JeremyKonyndyk, to me, in this piece:

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Greg Sargent
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Trump's magical lies are failing.

New NPR poll finds only 37% trust what Trump says about coronavirus -- while 50% trust what the media says about it.

The megalomaniacal prioritizing of protecting Trump above all else isn't working.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Trump's propagandists have stampeded from bashing the media for supposedly hyping coronavirus, all to hurt Trump, to suddenly treating it as a serious crisis that actually displays Trump's bold and heroic leadership:

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Staggeringly bad numbers for Trump:

Only 35 percent of independents trust what Trump says about coronavirus, versus 62 percent who do not.

Among women, that's 31-66 (!!).

I submit that when it comes to such public perceptions, a great deal is at stake:

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Greg Sargent
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It's beyond depraved that Trump is still trying to discredit the media at exactly the moment when it is picking up *his* slack, informing the American people about a public emergency that Trump himself has tried to mislead them about for weeks. New piece:
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Trump raged at @Yamiche for asking about his dispanding of the WH pandemic office.

I went back and looked. The pattern is unmistakable: Trump tends to lash out at reporters most angrily when they try to hold him accountable for his own words and deeds:

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@Yamiche Trump is telling Americans not to trust an institution that's informing them about a public emergency in a way he will not. All because that institution is imposing accountability on him that he'd never impose on himself.

Trump's autocracy is disastrous.

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Greg Sargent
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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:

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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