2. But let's push the metaphor further. If the pandemic is a war, then what sort of military leader is Trump. He's not a Grant, Pershing or an Eisenhower. He's a Custer, a Haig, a Westmoreland.
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3. Trump is running the metaphorical war on the Invisible Enemy with the same ineptitude of America's other recent wars. Kushner hiring 20 something GOP failsons to procure medical supplies is exactly like how Bush staffed the Green Zone with Heritage Foundation interns.
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4. More thoughts on Trump's "wartime presidency" and the pandemic.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-coronavirus-war-criminal/ …
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Traditionally in a war you try to defeat the enemy rather than standing by and letting it kill you but what do I know?
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The "war" metaphor represents the people sacrificing themselves for the sake of the state. It fails to capture a crisis where the people must make sacrifices for each other, and the state must work on behalf of the most vulnerable.
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Isn’t WW2 a pretty good example of pulling together for a common cause? From what I could gather Americans were not doing badly at all in Social Distancing. Think of what we could’ve managed with concise, consistent leadership coming from WH. I truly think we were up to this task
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They should think of themselves as warriors, and of Trump as that rich guy who opted out with a bogus excuse so he could work on his golf stroke & lose the money he inherited.
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I doubt the war metaphor will work for Trump because it's become so painfully obvious that we're not all sacrificing at the same level.
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Painfully Obvious* (shooting: 5th Ave) has been this President’s wheelhouse. He was given a pass before election 2016, & since IMO. His lies have been artfully described as anything but-he’s gleefully smashed every norm. Is is his followers we fear? Surely not just his tweets...
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it is a justification for murder! It’s a ghoulish example of necropolitics
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