Trump and his supporters are already rewriting recent coronavirus history...

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You could see this one coming with your eyes closed. Trumpists will now be gushing about their idol’s “bold and unprecedented leadership.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/17/trump-his-supporters-are-already-rewriting-recent-coronavirus-history/%3foutputType=amp
Washington Post
March 17, 2020
By Paul Waldman

The pivot has begun.

At a news conference Tuesday, President Trump took pains to tell the public not only that the coronavirus crisis is serious — “We want to save a lot of lives. If you get too steep on that curve, you’re gonna lose a lotta lives" — but that he never downplayed it in the first place.

“I’ve always known this is a real — this is a pandemic," Trump said. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."

That followed a press conference Monday when for the first time he seemed to acknowledge the magnitude of the crisis (“this is a very bad one”), amid the expected self-congratulation (“we’ve done a fantastic job from just about every standpoint”).

So the message has now gone forth: It’s time for Trump supporters to stop denying that the coronavirus is a big deal and focus on praising Trump’s extraordinary leadership in this time of crisis.

This is a shift that will take a bit of time to diffuse through the right, but it has a few key elements to it.

The first will be to wipe away recent history: Before long, you’ll hear Trump supporters say that Trump never denied how serious a public health challenge the virus posed, despite the fact that until this week he had been doing nothing but denying this.
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We’ve heard this line from Trump on a variety of subjects: Because I didn’t understand something, that means no one did. The point of this revisionist history is to retroactively wipe away Trump’s own negligence, to make his repeated efforts to play down the virus fade into the mist. In the new version of history, we didn’t go through a period where people were begging Trump to take it seriously; instead, we all realized what was happening at exactly the same moment.

And at that moment, it was only Trump’s nearly god-like decisiveness and wisdom that saved us. As Sean Hannity said on Monday: “The president’s China and European travel ban, I predict will go down as the single most consequential decision in history. That’s not political. It bought us time.”
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[riversedge]

1. bots are all over twitter praising the great job trump has done. Have you notices that each

task force person who speaks-says something like---The President has.........Thank you President Trump. good job rings high.

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4. It's as if they're all hostages, pledging fealty like their lives depended on it.

Pence is the biggest gusher. He fawns over his boss so much that it’s stomach-turning.

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9. Or they are having a contest. Who ever says it more gets the Bigly prize from Trumpy

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12. It's embarrassing to see adults slather that hatemonger with undeserved praise and adulation.

Are they just trying to get in his good graces? Do they really want to bow down to a ruthless, unforgiving “daddy” that badly? Or is it more like, “let’s just kiss his ass so he’ll shut up for awhile”?

But whatever their motivation, it’s appalling.

[rurallib]

2. We knew of the virus @ the first day of winter - it took til the first day of spring

before Donnie Wonderful took it any kind of serious. That is yet to be seen if his seriousness will last.

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15. He has the attention span of a gnat. And he put Pence on this first.

Like that was a masterful gambit. Now 45’s out there sucking up the phony love.

Insanity, all of it.

[Under The Radar]

3. We have had infections increasing for three weeks

If he has an A+ or a 10 out of 10, wouldn’t that number be at zero? He said that he had it under control before 1 infected person.
Even if we were grading on a curve as far as preparedness and response, we are near the bottom.
I understand the hype but to allow that statement to go unchallenged is just lazy.

[Texaswitchy]

5. I noticed.

When people start to die in.big numbers let see what happens.

It will get worse.

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20. I fear that it's unavoidable.

Too many clueless Americans believe that “thinking globally” is some kind of commie plot.

[malaise]

6. We have him on tape

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213116881

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18. If we played the tape for his true believers, they'd claim it's "fake."

Because ANYONE who thinks 45 is great has a shaky relationship with REALITY.

[central scrutinizer]

7. Oceania is at war with Eastasia

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia

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13. "Freedom is Slavery. War is Peace"...

Add: “Fox News is THE source for unfaltering, bedrock truth.”

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8. I watched Morning Joe today until I got pissed off and shut off the

TV. They were all gushing about how Trump has taken charge. Up until today today they were criticizeing
him every morning. He acts half sane once and now he is FDR.

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16. Just 4 days ago it was, "I don't take responsibility at all."

Today, it’s like the Second Coming. Why do (apparently sane) people keep sucking up to this massive train-wreck of a person?

[handmade34]

10. this "Dear Leader"

b#llsh:t has to end

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11. It's infuriating, because it's a complete disconnect from facts and truth.

We all expect a certain amount of spin on big issues, but you’re right, this IS “Dear Leader” horseflop, which is just a short hop from “Mein Fuhrer.”

[spanone]

14. That's what they do.When you have you're own network called 'news' it doesn't take long

Edited for my exuberant language🤬

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17. My wife has given me a "free language pass" while we're shut in.

Not that she can’t let fly with a good epithet on occasion herself. But ever 45’s been in office, my vocabulary has been peppered with expletives.

[spanone]

19. Bwahahahaa I'm with you!