'Trump is killing his own supporters' - even White House insiders know it

[nitpicker]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/trump-is-killing-his-own-supporters-coronavirus-covid-19

'Trump is killing his own supporters' – even White House insiders know it

Lloyd Green

A plague is raging and the president is leaving the heartlands and blue-collar voters exposed. This could be the endgame

Sun 5 Apr 2020 17.07 EDT Last modified on Sun 5 Apr 2020 17.32 EDT

On Sunday, initially at least, there was no White House briefing on the president’s public schedule. But the bad news kept coming. Coronavirus deaths continued to climb and reports of the heartland being unprepared for what may be on its horizon continued to ricochet around the media.

In the words of one administration insider, to the Guardian: “The Trump organism is simply collapsing. He’s 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? It’s the world’s 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 O’Malley, 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.
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[Blue Owl]

1. Please, continue

n/t

[underpants]

2. Great piece.

I've posted about "leading from behind" and other things that were the prime (imaginary) complaints against Obama that Trump is taking to reality and unreal extremes.

It hasn't hit them yet. At least they don't know it yet. Not opening up the Obamacare exchanges (against everyone's advise) is tragic as well.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. "trump is telling NFL owners HE wants the season to start on time."

Let that sink in.

[CaptYossarian]

4. Welcome to Guyana North.

A lot of parallels. Jim Jones never thought of having a FOX News to spread his BS.

[Harker]

5. He should spend the rest of his life being dragged from his cell

to courtrooms to face charges from everyone he's wronged.

[Stuart G]

6. K and R ...Yes, and this is proof Trump cares only about himself!!!!...no text

[lagomorph777]

7. Under Pres. Turd, the national gov't isn't a "backstop," it's a "doorstop."

at best.