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The thing you need to understand about the Trump Administration is that there is no Trump Administration.

There's an illusion of a government presented by a collection of criminals whose only concern is further dismantling government to accelerate profit and consolidate power.
The Trump Administration is the final movement in a decade's old effort by Republicans to destroy governance completely and move the directing of society to the wealthy and markets.

Trump is the deathblow. He's not there to solve problems or save lives.

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When the pandemic set in, the first goal of the Trump Administration was to pretend it didn't exist. It was a corporate PR strategy. Once it became unhideable, the question became: how can we profit from this?

We have to realize we're not watching politics-as-usual.
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A fun thing to remember is that when Trump met with Kim Jong Un he kept expressing that he wished the media worshiped him like a murderous dictator's and continually referred to Fox News as mostly fair but "sometimes tough."

Seriously. He's incredibly dangerous.
Trump actually believes that Fox News, a literal corporate propaganda arm that has retconned every dangerous and absurd decision he's ever made, is unfair to him and isn't loyal enough.

Now he's pushing OANN, a racist, fever dream, paranoid machine.
Trump is an endless black hole of need. He's an authoritarian and needs constant, unrelenting worship, but even that worship is never enough.

His entire management style is predicated on that, like every authoritarian. He has to pit sycophants against one another.
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It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Right Wing and corporate agenda makers planned on rolling out a full scale “reopen the economy” blitz over Easter weekend and Trump couldn’t help but jump the gun and push it weeks before.
The possibility that Trump might’ve previewed the Eastern weekend reopening push on Fox News, which was awful fast in unleashing the “that would be a great American resurrection!” line is also there, but it’s obviously an organized rhetorical push with the holiday.
People need to understand that political movements, particularly ones like the GOP that actively blend nationalistic and religious ideologies, use holy days and holidays for rhetorical foundations. The idea of a resurrection is usable for a messiah and national/economic purposes.
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Donald Trump wasn’t elected to govern or solve problems.

He is president to destroy government functions while presenting the illusion of government. None of his goals - disabling oversight to further profit and power - include saving lives during a pandemic.
The media refuses to recognize reality. This isn’t politics as usual. It’s post-politics. It’s a show of good faith governance that hides the destruction of good faith governance.

Trump isn’t there to be president. He’s president to destroy government function.
The problem is that people who should know better, who should be covering this as a blatant genocide in the name of profit and amassing power, are the marks Trump relies on. They’re trying to reckon with him like a president in the presidential mold.

He’s an imposter, a con man.
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