Trump is preparing the ground for a totalitarian dictatorship -- but we can stop him

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https://www.salon.com/2020/04/04/trump-is-preparing-the-ground-for-a-totalitarian-dictatorship--but-we-can-stop-him/

We're all going to know someone who has died of the coronavirus when this is over. The tragic news is all over Facebook and Twitter already. My friend Patricia Bosworth, the actress and biographer, died on Friday of the virus. Everyone has friends and acquaintances who have the virus, family members who have died, favorite musicians or actors and friends of friends who are sick and dying. The virus has taken them from us, but so has Donald Trump with his inaction and lying and childish finger-pointing and failure to take responsibility.

Even the funerals have been taken from us. People grieve alone in apartments and bedrooms, many separated from family and loved ones, and outside our four walls, people keep getting sick and dying. There are photographs of refrigerated trailers lined up behind New York hospitals being used as mortuaries for the dead because there is no more room in the city morgues and funeral homes. Orders have been placed for 100,000 body bags, to remove the dead from hospitals that are overrun with patients dying by the hundreds every single day. The military doesn't even have enough body bags to keep up with the demand, as preparations are made for more people to die than the total of Americans killed in the Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korean wars combined. The Army could handle the dozens, even hundreds killed at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they can't handle tens of thousands of dead bodies to come.

This is chaos on a scale we have never seen before. Much of the chaos is the responsibility of Donald Trump in his role as president of the United States. He actively denied the size and severity of the threat and failed to provide leadership when it counted. This went on for months. As recently as a couple of weeks ago, Trump was crowing about "reopening" the economy by Easter. "We cannot let the cure be worse than the disease," he said only last week. "We've never closed down the country for the flu. So you say to yourself, what is this all about?"

What this is "all about," it turns out, is the re-election of Donald Trump. The Los Angeles Times reports that Trump campaign advisers staged an "intervention" last week, telling him, "Pay attention. You're going to lose the election." Those words apparently brought Trump out of his fugue of denial and earlier this week he allowed the experts on his "task force" to deliver their casualty projections, and even Trump himself finally uttered the words, "Stay at home."

[Docreed2003]

1. They're already attempting to gaslight is all and suggest that Trump has been all over this

From the beginning. We all know that is a load of crap, but they're trying to spin it to their advantage and it's infuriating and disgusting.

[WhiteTara]

2. What did they say in the "Stopping him" part?

We know how we got here and why, but how do we get out?

[RKP5637]

3. This ...

But we can beat this worthless lying scum-sucking bastard in November. There are more of us than there are of them, and we can win if Democrats get angry and stay angry and get out the vote. The coronavirus focuses this election like no election before. We can talk about abstract ideas like income inequality, and we can point to real problems like global warming and the need for universal health care, but tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dead bodies will rally the Democratic Party and vote this murdering bastard out of office. We don't have to play by the old Chicago rules and "vote the graveyard." All we have to do is remember those who have been sacrificed to this despicable man's criminal lying and dereliction of duty. Then we need to turn out and vote.