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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Aaron Rupar

      1. The war metaphor was always a double edged sword. It evokes the idea of a common and shared purpose sacrifice but also, as with Trump telling Americans they are "warriors" an implicit defense of sending people to their deaths.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1257757404109905921 …

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      TRUMP: "The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors. Our country has to open. Those projections are with no mitigation." (This is a lie. The coronavirus models Trump is referring to reflect his preferred course of action, which is to relax distancing.) pic.twitter.com/D7tOz7dYDn
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2020

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2020

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2020

      4. More thoughts on Trump's "wartime presidency" and the pandemic.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-coronavirus-war-criminal/ …

      8:56 AM - 6 May 2020
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        1. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor 6 May 2020
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          XLProfessor Retweeted Jeet Heer

          This is an incorrect analogy. Trump isn't a wartime general, he's president. You shouldn't compare him to Westmoreland, but Stalin Got rid of all the generals, refused to recognize the danger, then tried to solve the problem by throwing lives at ithttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1258063053754490880?s=20 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          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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        1. linda fletcher‏ @liesurelee 6 May 2020
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          But it is so American.The poor sign up cause they need income& healthcare.The poor fight the wealthy elites war so they can make more money. All the poor do is die cause they are replaceable.They are kept poor without options so this scenario can be played over& over again

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        1. Joe “well regulated” Scutella‏ @JoeScutella 6 May 2020
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          What Trump and the @GOP are actually doing is disguising a plan for herd immunity in the guise of a plan to reopen America. It is not accidental, it is purposeful and it is a crime against humanity. The “wartime president” is committing war crimes.

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        1. (((jeffmarkel)))‏ @jeffmarkel 6 May 2020
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          My tweet from a couple days ago...https://twitter.com/jeffmarkel/status/1257478621322719236?s=20 …

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          The fight against #COVID is, as the @GOP and @realDonaldTrump would have it, a war. Trump would like nothing better than to be seen as a wartime President. If, then, we’re at war, @POTUS , @VP, and @senatemajldr (at the very least) can and should be prosecuted for treason
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