President Donald Trump wants to draft every American to go to war.
Encouraging the public to transition
out of isolation and into the world, the president is increasingly
deploying battlefield rhetoric in asking everyday Americans to confront a
raging coronavirus pandemic that has already infected 1.3 million
people in the U.S. and killed nearly 80,000 — and this week clawed into the inner circle of his White House.
But the
past week marked a more deliberate messaging strategy as the White
House shifted its efforts toward resuscitating a sputtering economy with
the president’s own battle for reelection less than six months away.
Along
with conscripting Americans as soldiers in the reopening effort, this
week was also the first time Trump publicly compared the pandemic
directly to two of the most notable national tragedies in modern
American history.
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