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70 thousand Americans have died, and the President is calling the American people “warriors,” and “winding down” the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Please vote.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 5, 2020
He’s a war president, for sure, if you assume his war is against at least 63% of the American public.
Succinct director of Harvard Global Health institute: “People who are dying of this virus are not dying to protect the American way of life. They’re dying because their government has had a completely ineffective response to this infectious disease." https://t.co/fpwHRh3xo2
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) May 6, 2020
START THINKING OF YOURSELF AS A WARRIOR ORIN. https://t.co/5CnzkM4G2I
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 6, 2020
"The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors. Our country has to open." https://t.co/GSgDqPKj42
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 5, 2020
lionizing casualties is the oldest trick in the "we need to justify this war" book https://t.co/TKHyTasj6H
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) May 7, 2020
The implicit challenge of Trump as president is how much abasement and insult the country is willing to endure. It's all he has to offer, and all he has ever given to anyone, in any circumstance. Thousands of deaths a day won't give him pause for a minute. https://t.co/DWmxNMChm2
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) May 5, 2020
It would be my honor to serve my country in this glorious war by coughing to death because public health policies are boring and difficult to enact.
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) May 5, 2020
Trump is kind of the logical endpoint of decades of treating every challenge as a war. Bush used to say we could help the war effort by going out and shopping. This is the next level: shopping is war, but now we must lay down our own lives.
— Joseph Flynn (@ChinaJoeFlynn) May 5, 2020
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