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Seems so simple.⤵️But he can't.

🔹He'd need to lead and he doesn't know how.
🔹The GOP wouldn't back him up because using .government to help people goes against their philosophy of government.
🔹His supporters would resist because masks have been politicized as "weak."

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🔹The lie machine (right wing media) can't rewind.
🔹Fox wouldn't back him up because it would require pulling together with Democrats for a common cause, and without Democrats as their "enemy" Fox has no purpose.

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🔹It isn't as simple as calling for a shutdown: people with resource would need support, we'd need testing and PPE, so pulling this together requires a degree of competence.
🔹Trump doesn't know how to actually manage anything.

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🔹Nobody around Trump knows how to manage anything (look at Kushner)
🔹He has dismantled (and never assembled) the parts of government capable of dealing with a pandemic.

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🔹If Trump acted now, it would be tantamount to admitting he should have done something earlier.
🔹He genuinely doesn't care if people die.
🔹He truly believes he's doing a good job and the press is being unfair to him, and the real problem with how it's being reported.

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🔹All he has ever done is pretend to be a success. It's all he knows how to do. He can't change now.

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Of course, I meant people without resources would need support.

This is Trump's idea of how to govern⤵️

That, and create chaos and spectacle, making sure he keeps his opponents riled and his supporters stoked.

It's the Trump Reality Show, each day.

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They lie. That's what they do. Check out @senatemajldr's leader's latest👇

They don't worry about actually governing.
They take care of themselves and lie.

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For what I meant in the first tweet about the GOP philosophy of government (why they don't believe the purpose of government is to help people--what they call a "welfare state) see this thread:
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