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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:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@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.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@Yamiche Great piece by @anneapplebaum. Trump's attacks on civil service and governing capacity helped lay groundwork for current disaster. I tried to develop this in my piece, in context of Trump's relentless lying, but here Applebaum hits the truly big themes:

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Greg Sargent
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Trump's daily depravity has become so routine that he basically agreed with the claim that US news organizations are conspiring with foreign state propaganda, and it isn't news.

The sociopathy of today's display is in a league of its own. New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
It's sometimes said that Trump is trying to "bait" Democrats and the news media into criticizing the "Chinese virus" frame.

This may be. But if it is, the assumptions underlying this idea are themselves despicable and worthy of taking apart:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Trump is attacking the media *precisely because* it is holding him accountable for his own ongoing disastrous response, at a time when the American people are relying on the media to inform them in a manner that *Trump himself* refused to do for weeks:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent
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An important new forecast finds that if we slip into recession in the 2nd quarter and Trump's approval stays upside down, his reelection is likely doomed.

And there's no reason to think he'll get to Dems' left. Basic facts suggest otherwise.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Right now, the Trump campaign is attacking Biden's public option plan as "socialism," and Trump is backing a lawsuit that would wipe out the ACA entirely.

It's going to be hard for Trump to magically transform himself into the second coming of FDR:

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On Morning Joe, @SenSchumer called for serious conditions on corporate bailouts, including restrictions against layoffs and stock buybacks.

At least 18 Senate Ds now support direct cash payments of up to $4500.

Things are moving in the right direction:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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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:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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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