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1) Trump's advisers are targeting a new scapegoat in order to shift blame away from his utterly catastrophic botching of coronavirus: The CDC.

This is deeply depraved on its own.

But there's a backstory here that simply must not get memory-holed.

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2) When Trump urged the premature reopening of states, which has helped produce the current spikes, he was defying his own CDC's guidelines and his own government experts!

The idea that Trump and his advisers would now shift blame to them is laughable.

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3) By my count, Trump has already blamed *nearly a dozen* other people, entities, or developments for his own towering failures on coronavirus.

Here's a list of his scapegoats:

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4) Now Trump's advisers have the gall to imagine he can get away with blaming the CDC, after he personally denied the seriousness of coronavirus and urinated all over his own experts' advice for months.

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5) One could imagine a review of the CDC's conduct being done in a constructive way.

But the man who said, "I don't take responsibility at all," and actively wants *fewer* tests to keep cases down, doesn't suddenly get to be a voice of accountability.

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1) The big story in the remarkable new NYT poll is that there is a genuine anti-Trump majority in this country.

On the seismic events rocking the country, majorities disapprove of Trump. These majorities are multi-racial and cut across age lines.

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2) The Trumpist mythology is that Trump is whispering to a "SILENT MAJORITY" with his lies about coronavirus and his fearmongering and race-baiting on mass protests.

But on both these fronts, Trump is losing among *white* voters and even among *seniors.*

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3) The ugly subtext to Trump's mythology, is that even as he claims to represent a "SILENT MAJORITY" of Real Americans, he's actually trying to prevail through counter-majoritarian means.

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1) Trump gazed in "horror" at the sea of empty seats at his rally, and raged at aides over it, a new report says.

His aides conceded to one another that he had failed to bend reality to his will.

This could go down as an iconic moment.

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2) The iconic moment of a modern president losing control of events, and of his public image, is LBJ holed up in the White House, confiding to advisers that his political capital had bled away, as antiwar protesters chanted outside.

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3) Like Trump, LBJ was consumed with self pity and paranoia. He blamed the east coast media for working against him. He told himself the people were secretly with him.

But LBJ finally admitted he'd lost control of events. He declined to run for reelex.

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The DOJ effort to block publication of John Bolton's book is likely a serious abuse of power. I took a closer look at DOJ's claims about the process with help from a former NSC official, and they don't pass the smell test. New piece:
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The declassification process for such books is supposed to be undertaken *in good faith.*

There are legitimately competing public interest imperatives here. But in this case, it's hard to see how the lodestar was what's really in the national interest.

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The DOJ's *own lawsuit* recounts that a senior NSC official *cleared* Bolton's book.

And then, *after* that, Trump's current national security adviser had a political appointee at NSC take a second look!

NSC officials wouldn't say why there was a delay:

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