Sunday, March 22, 2020

Lili Loofbourow: ‘The Real Reason Trump Started Calling the Virus “Chinese”’


From Slate:

Trump, whose sole priority is his re-election, desperately needs to remind his supporters that the Democrats, scientists, and journalists who took the outbreak seriously from the start are still their enemies. He can achieve that easily enough; all he has to do is reignite a debate over whether something he says is or is not racist. If Trump can make it look like the very people who took the pandemic seriously are now frivolously objecting to his nomenclature, maybe he can claw back any support that may have been waffling.

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