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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,072 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:38 PM Apr 2020

Trump's support for right-wing protests just got more ugly and dangerous

At bottom, President Trump’s ongoing support for right wing agitators who want to own the libs by throwing off the oppression of policies limiting their own exposure to a deadly pathogen should sound unsettlingly familiar.

It’s another expression of the idea that Democratic governance is fundamentally illegitimate -- an idea Trump has pushed in many different ways for years.

“Their life was taken away from them,” Trump said at Sunday’s briefing, backing protesters around the country urging governors to lift social-distancing restrictions put in place to combat coronavirus. “They want their life back,” Trump also said.

Barely 12 hours later, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll was released finding that nearly 60 percent of Americans worry more that the U.S. will move too quickly in loosening restrictions, leading to more deaths. Only 32 percent worry we’ll take too long.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-support-for-right-wing-protests-just-got-more-ugly-and-dangerous/ar-BB12VAZk?ocid=msn360

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Trump's support for right-wing protests just got more ugly and dangerous (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
Donald, Over 40,000 people have had their lives taken away from them due to your lies and incompeten keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #1
This is ugly, and getting uglier. However, the present curves and projections, empedocles Apr 2020 #2

keithbvadu2

(36,836 posts)
1. Donald, Over 40,000 people have had their lives taken away from them due to your lies and incompeten
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:51 PM
Apr 2020

Donald, Over 40,000 people have had their lives taken away from them due to your lies and incompetence.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
2. This is ugly, and getting uglier. However, the present curves and projections,
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 09:38 PM
Apr 2020

even with the obvious, severe, undercounting of the infected - may well really rock the rw.

Unfortunately, there will be countless, innocent victims.

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