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Sasha Abramsky, who writes regularly for The Nation , is the author of several books, including Inside Obama’s Brain , Breadline USA , American Furies , The American Way of Poverty , The House of 20,000 Books Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream . Subscribe to The Abramsky Report, a weekly, subscription-based political column, here .
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May 19, 2020
He’s playing with fire, but he doesn’t care. Desperate to win reelection amid mass unemployment, he knows that he has few cards left to play.
Attacking science, forcing people back to work, closing the border, suppressing the vote—the Trump/GOP strategy looks increasingly like white nationalist accelerationism.
May 14, 2020
“Immigrant workers give life, give a pulse, to our economy. We need to be taken into account.”
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Instead, the president spent the past week pushing disinformation campaigns and vitriolic attacks against constructive responses to the pandemic.
They’re following the lead of Trump, who encourages gun-toting protesters, blames immigrants and China, and demonizes the media.
They’re promoting policies that could push not only the economy but the US system of government to the breaking point.
Progressive states and attorneys are charting their own course, using the courts to rein in an out-of-control president.
His new ban is an election gambit—that despite his manifest incompetence and a cratered economy, he can win this fall by doubling down on xenophobia.
That, plus more deportations—of coronavirus-exposed refugees.
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