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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump and his supporters are already rewriting recent coronavirus history...
You could see this one coming with your eyes closed. Trumpists will now be gushing about their idols 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, youre gonna lose a lotta lives" but that he never downplayed it in the first place.
Ive 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 (weve done a fantastic job from just about every standpoint).
So the message has now gone forth: Its time for Trump supporters to stop denying that the coronavirus is a big deal and focus on praising Trumps 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, youll 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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Weve heard this line from Trump on a variety of subjects: Because I didnt understand something, that means no one did. The point of this revisionist history is to retroactively wipe away Trumps own negligence, to make his repeated efforts to play down the virus fade into the mist. In the new version of history, we didnt 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 Trumps nearly god-like decisiveness and wisdom that saved us. As Sean Hannity said on Monday: The presidents China and European travel ban, I predict will go down as the single most consequential decision in history. Thats not political. It bought us time.
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riversedge
(70,282 posts)task force person who speaks-says something like---The President has.........Thank you President Trump. good job rings high.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Pence is the biggest gusher. He fawns over his boss so much that its stomach-turning.
riversedge
(70,282 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)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, lets just kiss his ass so hell shut up for awhile?
But whatever their motivation, its appalling.
rurallib
(62,441 posts)before Donnie Wonderful took it any kind of serious. That is yet to be seen if his seriousness will last.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Like that was a masterful gambit. Now 45s out there sucking up the phony love.
Insanity, all of it.
Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)If he has an A+ or a 10 out of 10, wouldnt 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
(2,962 posts)When people start to die in.big numbers let see what happens.
It will get worse.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Too many clueless Americans believe that thinking globally is some kind of commie plot.
malaise
(269,157 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Because ANYONE who thinks 45 is great has a shaky relationship with REALITY.
central scrutinizer
(11,659 posts)Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia
VOX
(22,976 posts)Add: Fox News is THE source for unfaltering, bedrock truth.
doc03
(35,362 posts)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.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Today, its like the Second Coming. Why do (apparently sane) people keep sucking up to this massive train-wreck of a person?
handmade34
(22,757 posts)b#llsh:t has to end
VOX
(22,976 posts)We all expect a certain amount of spin on big issues, but youre right, this IS Dear Leader horseflop, which is just a short hop from Mein Fuhrer.
spanone
(135,859 posts)Edited for my exuberant language🤬
VOX
(22,976 posts)Not that she cant let fly with a good epithet on occasion herself. But ever 45s been in office, my vocabulary has been peppered with expletives.