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Again and again throughout this crisis, Trump has sought to bring out the very worst in us.

Again and again, he's failed.

New polling shows fewer than 1/3 of Americans rely on Trump for info on coronavirus and trust what he's telling them.

New piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Hard to overstate how thoroughly Trump has lost the argument over social distancing.

Despite efforts by the anti-lockdown culture warrior fringe brigade to concoct impressions of widespread populist rage, 82% of *Republicans* see it as responsible:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
We're in an amazing moment.

Distancing is imposing tremendous psychological and economic hardship.

Yet large majorities refuse to let Trump's magical chaos powers appeal to their basest instincts.

It's a remarkable outpouring of public spiritedness.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
There is no longer any excuse to treat Trump's briefings as news:

* He feels zero obligation to prepare so he can better inform the public

* He reads from talking points

* He sees briefings as campaign rallies and as occasions to discredit the media

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Yes, this is how the president of the United States is utilizing his time and energy during the twin crises of the greatest public health emergency in modern times and the worst economic calamity in many decades:

nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/…
If journalists know this is how Trump himself views the function of his briefings and that this is how woefully unprepared he is to inform the American people when he shows up at them, what on earth is the excuse for airing them in unadulterated form?

nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/…
JFC. Trump is a global public health menace:

washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/…
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Covid is spreading far beyond cities and blue areas, a new analysis finds.

“Coronavirus is becoming more evident in Red America than a few weeks ago,," demographer William Frey tells me.

That's bad news for the anti-lockdown culture warriors. New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
This new analysis finds that covid has slowly extended into new parts of the Midwest and the south, into outer suburbs and small metropolitan areas, and into parts of the country carried by Trump.

When demographer William Frey weighs in, you listen:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Tucker Carlson's latest is disgusting, but important.

Carlson is now claiming it's a "lie" that quarantines are needed to save lives.

This is the latest strike by the anti-lockdown culture warriors.

But there just isn't any real culture war here:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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We are shockingly far from having anything close to the testing regime we need to reopen safely.

I had a very sobering conversation about what's needed with @DrTomFrieden, a top expert.

The consequences of falling short are terrifying. Our interview:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@DrTomFrieden Some highlights from our interview:

@DrTomFrieden tells me we need to *triple* our daily testing just to get to the point where we're testing high priority cases.

To really be safe, we'd be testing all admitted to hospitals. But that's far away indeed:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@DrTomFrieden This is highly troubling.

@DrTomFrieden points out we don't have a clear sense of what percentage of people with Covid-like symptoms admitted to hospitals are even getting tested.

"There are more people who have symptoms every day than there are tests."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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