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How is it possible that Trump can assert "total" authority while claiming "I don't take responsibility at all"?

Easy.

Trump wants to create the appearance of taking charge, without accepting any responsibility for any actual bad outcomes.

New piece:
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The idea that the president can use an emergency to wield quasi-dictatorial powers is a product of public legal misunderstanding.

I talked to @steve_vladeck, who doused Trump's claim of "total" authority with a pail of ice cold water very effectively:

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@steve_vladeck Trump's basic problem is that he needs to both erase his responsibility for all his early catastrophic failures while simultaneously appearing to take command of the recovery:

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Biden just released a tough new ad hitting Trump for leaving us "exposed" to China.

That's good, but let's add more:

Trump didn't praise China to save his trade deal. He did it to prop up the epic lie that the virus was under control here.

New piece:
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The idea that Trump praised China's handling of coronavirus to preserve his trade deal misses the truly depraved nature of what really happened.

His praise of China was central to sustaining the monstrous lie that we didn't have to worry about it here.

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One last point. Biden might consider leaning harder into an expansive defense of reality-based multilateralism, and contrast that with Trump's insane effort to defund the World Health Organization and his ludicrous performative nationalism:

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Laura Ingraham tried to get Dr. Fauci to trash @JoeBiden's response to Trump's vague new plan. It didn't go well.

That's funny. But I took a closer look. Biden also called on Trump to dramatically ramp up testing. Ingraham left that part out.

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@JoeBiden Trump's propagandists have a huge problem.

They need to minimize coronavirus to get the economy reopened on Trump's reelection schedule.

But they *also* need to make it look as if they...aren't minimizing coronavirus.

Those things can't be reconciled:

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@JoeBiden Here's the bottom line.

To reopen the economy safely, we need a far more robust federal testing plan.

That's the core disagreement between Biden and Trump right now.

Biden is listening to experts. Trump/Fox are trying to make this reality disappear:

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Something very important is happening in Virginia.

The Dem takeover of state government, fueled by anti-Trump fervor, is now allowing for the first big reversal of what the Tea Party wave wrought:

* Voting rights
* gun reforms
* ACA expansion

New piece:
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Virginia sits at the nexus of Trump-era trends -- demographic shifts, Dem gains in the suburbs.

Now the gains from those trends are reversing the gains of the 2010 Tea Party ascendancy.

Dems hope this is a model for more state-level gains to come:

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It's often debated whether the Democratic gains in the suburbs could ultimately undercut progressive possibilities.

But in VA, we're seeing right now that those gains are undoing the damage of years of right wing rule.

(cc @EricLevitz @yeselson)

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