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All Trump has left is creating the *appearance* of action.

* Authorizes governors to do what's already in their control

* Forces execs to join conference calls that have no real purpose

* Falsely claims our testing is greatest in the world

New piece:
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Here's the problem with these conference calls: The *bad faith.*

The temptation for corporate execs to toe the line and buttress Trump's insistence that reopening the economy is safe, and that testing is scaled up to make it possible, must be very great:

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Trump's briefings are central to the propaganda push to recast him as a visionary on coronavirus all along.

But are they working?

A Dem pollster tells me his numbers show Trump's serial blame-shifting might be backfiring, and hurting more than it helps:

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Final point:

It's tempting to dismiss these briefings as just "The Trump Show."

But they could put pressure on GOP governors to reopen too quickly.

We're already seeing a groundswell of such pushes, organized by various dubious Trump-aligned interests:

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Trump's new immigration ban is a monumental scam. It won't address the ongoing spread of coronavirus, which *he* allowed to rage of control. The suggestion that US workers will benefit is a complete misdiagnosis of our current economic calamity. New piece:
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“We should be thanking immigrant (and native-born) workers for maintaining food production, health care, and every other essential service still in action.”

@econjared, to me. As he says, the new ban completely misdiagnoses our current travails:

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@econjared Trump's new immigration ban again shows that he views coronavirus as a *foreign* enemy.

That's why he keeps hyping his China travel ban. But that cannot erase the catastrophic record of failure that followed from Trump once it had been unleashed *here.*

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At bottom, Trump's efforts to foment rebellion against legitimately elected governors reflect his ongoing claim that Democratic governance is fundamentally illegitimate.

What we're seeing here is a very deep contempt for democracy itself.

New piece:
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Remember "Second Amendment remedies"?

That phrase was infamously used by a tea party Senate candidate in 2010, to hint at the possibility of armed rebellion against the Dem Congress.

We're hearing similar language from today's anti-lockdown protests:

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You can draw a straight line from the tea party's ugly rhetoric about "takers," right through to Trump's treatment of Democratic governors as illegitimate.

It's herrenvolk democracy meets minority rule.

With help from @AdamSerwer and @jtlevy:

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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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