Thread on what I would advise @realDonaldTrump to say/do tonight on his Fox #coronavirus townhall. He needs to take the focus off panic porn and put it back on reopen. If November is about panic porn he will lose bad, period. If it's about reopen he'll win big, period.
1) We're dissolving the coronavirus task force completely, because we flattened the curve and avoided an unprecedented national healthcare crisis as we vowed on 3/16. That was our goal, and we accomplished it too well. Now hospitals are closing/laying off for lack of business.
2) Do not reissue any guidelines, because these provide political protection for authoritarian governors to hide behind. Instead, say our focus at WH is now on #MAGA and getting world's best economy going again. The whole country isn't New York, or Montana.
3) This allows the president to nationally message reopen, while at the same time making these petty tyrant governors have to answer directly to their people, with no protection or blame shifting from on high.
4) Confirm that AG Barr will be aggressively litigating and pushing back on threats to constitutional freedoms, especially those who believe you never let a good crisis go to waste in that regard.
That's it. That should be the entire message tonight IMO. Reset the board.
That's it. That should be the entire message tonight IMO. Reset the board.
