Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has called for the “liberation” of states under scientifically based public health quarantines. This call encourages his rabid right-wing base toward further extremism. It can and will lead to thousands of deaths. The far right is already breaking quarantine, blockading hospitals, and calling for the trading of millions of lives for “the economy.” There should be no doubt of their fascist and near fascist politics. Right-wing demonstrators were seen, among other things, holding up antisemitic signs. But even mainstream moderate politicians are moving to prematurely “open” parts of the economy -- as with the recent opening of marinas in the Northeast. Trump’s call is essentially an exterminationist call to a fascist base (despite recent equivocation over Georgia).
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