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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOpinion Donald Trump 'Trump is killing his own supporters' - even White House insiders know it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/trump-is-killing-his-own-supporters-coronavirus-covid-19In the words of one administration insider, to the Guardian: The Trump organism is simply collapsing. Hes killing his own supporters.
Members of the national guard, emergency workers, rank-and-file Americans: all are exposed. Yet Trump appears incapable of emoting anything that comes close to heart-felt concern. Or just providing straight answers.
Rather, he is acting like Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America: repeatedly letting governors know the burden of shoring up their sick, their doctors and their people falls on their shoulders first. The national government? Its the worlds greatest backstop.
Remember when the Republican party freaked out about Barack Obama and the US leading from behind abroad? Remember the howls that evoked from GOP leaders? Those days are gone. Welcome to what Martin OMalley, a Democratic former governor of Maryland, calls the Darwinian approach to federalism.
Trump is telling NFL owners he wants the season to start on time. He is disregarding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advice on wearing facemasks in public. And he is touting untested coronavirus cures live on national TV.
Think Trump University on steroids, only this time we all stand to be the victims.
When Dr Anthony Fauci says there is no evidence to back up Trumps claims surrounding hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, pay attention. The fact Jared Kushner is on the case is hardly reassuring. Hes the guy who thought firing James Comey was win-win politics and promised Middle East peace in our time.
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Opinion Donald Trump 'Trump is killing his own supporters' - even White House insiders know it (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Apr 2020
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. and they like it, they think he is owning the libs.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)2. While they are suffering and dying with the rest of us . . .
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. Can't fix magical thinkers, they tend to blow themselves up sometimes.
crickets
(25,952 posts)4. A 24/7 mental diet of FOX has many people brainwashed.
Some of them are starting to wake up. Slowly, but it is happening--hopefully before he gets them killed.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)5. K and R....
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)6. Cults
and cult leaders normally all die.
I just wish they would leave the rest of us alone.
Massacure
(7,512 posts)7. I miss Martin O'Malley
I was impressed by his debate performances in the 2016 presidential primaries.