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Why did Dan Patrick's on-air plea that seniors should be ready to die to protect the economy touch such a chord?

Because it captured something essential about Trump. In a very real sense, Trump is asking us to accept the same choice.

New piece:

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Trump is now calling on people to go back to work.

Here's what makes this *much* worse.

He's doing this while simultaneously *refusing* to do what it takes to prepare our system for the tidal wave of coronavirus cases that's coming:

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Newsflash:

We don't have to choose between unbearably high death rates and a societal collapse that dooms the American experiment.

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NO, Trump is not going to magically transform himself into FDR. Stop sweating over his approval ratings.

Also, the Biden campaign tells us it will absolutely continue making a robust case against Trump's rolling coronavirus fiasco.

@paulwaldman1 and me:

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@paulwaldman1 We looked at the soaring approval ratings enjoyed by LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and George W. Bush amid their crises, as a point of comparison to Trump now (cc @redistrict):

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@paulwaldman1 @Redistrict This entire website went nuts because an unnamed outside Biden adviser told @RyanLizza that people don't want to hear Trump criticized right now.

We did something crazy and asked the Biden campaign for their view of this. They shot it down hard:

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Trump is raging at Michigan's @GovWhitmer for criticizing him.

But here's the backstory.

A recent federal delivery of coronavirus supplies to a hospital on front lines was enough for *one shift.*

I spoke to Whitmer's office. It's hair-raising stuff:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@GovWhitmer Trump, on Michigan's @GovWhitmer:

"All she does is blame the federal government. And we send her a lot."

This is just deeply wretched and depraved.

Here's what's really going on in Michigan right now, according to Whitmer and her office:

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@GovWhitmer Let's get real:

It's perfectly plausible that Trump sees his explicit hand-washing of responsibility for the mounting death toll in certain parts of the country as something that will appeal to parts of the country that he perceives as his own.

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NEW:

The Trump campaign is demanding TV stations nix a brutal new ad using his own words against him.

But @prioritiesUSA confirms to me that it's still running on dozens of stations.

What Trump really hates is that this ad tells the truth.

New piece:

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@prioritiesUSA Here's a funny thing.

The quote from Trump that his own campaign cites to dispute the Democratic ad showing him downplaying coronavirus itself actually shows him...downplaying coronavirus!

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@prioritiesUSA Here's a prediction for you:

The Trump campaign will soon accuse the media of "bias" for taking down Trump ads that are rank propaganda and disinformation, while refusing to take down Democratic ads about Trump that are true:

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