There is no harm he's not willing to do to America to get reelected

It's about masks, it's about the need right now to back off reopening, it's about kids going back to school full time in full classrooms this fall, it's about your idiot president refusing still to listen to people whose opinions are not wishing thinking, conspiracy theories, and utter bullshit.

The President Is Trading Dr. Fauci for the Ex-Host of Love Connection

The president spent this morning sharing the public-health stylings of Chuck Woolery, the former host of Love Connection, who logged on to spout off some conspiratorial nonsense. 

Apparently, the president couldn't have said it better himself. So he retweeted it to his 83 million followers.

The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most , [sic] that we are told to trust. I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I'm sick of it.

Attacking doctors during a pandemic is certainly a novel approach. 

So is attempting to destroy the face of your public-health apparatus, but that's what Trump and his craven apparatchiks are up to, according to the New York Times.

White House turns on Fauci as disaster grows out of aggressive state openings

Instead of focusing on the out-of-control coronavirus disaster in Florida and other early opening states, the White House is trying to destroy the reputation of one of America's most respected public servants, Dr. Anthony Fauci, for telling the truth about how bad things are getting.

President Donald Trump is meanwhile highlighting claims that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors, media and the Democrats are lying about the country's pandemic -- the world's worst -- in order to crush the economy on which he is relying for reelection.

The new campaign of deception is accelerating a day after Florida recorded the highest-ever single daily caseload of new infections for any US state and as the daily total of confirmed cases nationwide hits a staggering 60,000. 

The surge is raging across southern and Western heartlands, also including Texas, Georgia and Arizona which tried to get back to normal before the curve of infections was suppressed. 

The resulting torrent of new cases is exposing Trump's call for early openings, embraced by many Republican governors in defiance of CDC guidelines, as one of the worst political and economic decisions in modern history.

But the White House is not learning from its past mistakes as it steps up an aggressive push to get schools fully operational within weeks, after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos failed repeatedly to outline a plan to do so safely in a CNN interview Sunday.

Why Fauci should quit

Joel Mathis in The Week.

It is time for Dr. Anthony Fauci to quit government. 

Indeed, resigning might be the best thing he can do for the country's public health — not to mention his own dignity.

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The president has evidently given up on battling the pandemic, choosing instead to declare victory even as cases and deaths surge across the country. 

Meanwhile, recent days have brought ample evidence that Trump has sidelined, silenced, and undermined Fauci, who continues — mostly behind the scenes — to argue for a cautious approach to reopening the country. 

His fact-based pessimism about the country's progress against the coronavirus has provided too stark a contrast with Trump's magical thinking.

So Trump and his allies have chosen to discredit Fauci instead of listen to him, sending a list of his errors to journalists and publicly criticizing him.

"Dr. Fauci is a nice man, but he's made a lot of mistakes," Trump told Sean Hannity last week, while telling another interviewer that he disagreed with Fauci's attitude. "I think we are in a good place," the president said.

"Dr. Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public but he has been wrong about everything I have ever interacted with him on," Peter Navarro, Trump's trade advisor, told The Washington Post. 

(Judge accordingly: Navarro used his Sunday morning TV appearance to suggest that China purposely unleashed the COVID-19 virus on the world, even though scientists believe the virus developed on its own.)

Fauci, meanwhile, told the Financial Times last week that he had not briefed Trump for two months. 

The White House has also reportedly prevented him from making appearances on TV.

"I have a reputation, as you probably have figured out, of speaking the truth at all times and not sugar-coating things. And that may be one of the reasons why I haven't been on television very much lately," Fauci told the FT.

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Quitting would allow Fauci to speak to the public more freely about the ongoing health crisis than he can now. 

Even without an official portfolio, he would almost certainly still be welcome on any news network, podcast, YouTube channel, or newspaper op-ed page to sound the alarm and make the case for what he believes is the correct approach to containing the pandemic. 

He wouldn't even have to criticize Trump directly, since he clearly seems averse to doing so. 

But he would have the freedom to offer his best advice to the American public, who right now seem more willing than the president to take Fauci seriously.

Many state and local health officials across the country have faced death threats and vicious personal attacks for the crime of trying to keep their citizens alive by disseminating scientific information. 

That is terrible. 

Unlike those officials, Fauci is positioned to affect the public discourse even after he leaves government. 

For the sake of America's health, he should do so.