This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around

the world. I'm Farid Zakarya. Today on the show, Bill Gates, the head of the world's

largest charitable foundation. What do we now know about this strange virus and its effects?

Has the lockdown worked? Is America ready to open up for business again? Will we have a

vaccine and when I will ask Bill Gates these questions and more? Also, where in the world did

the virus come from? Was it from a wet market or a Chinese lab? Will we ever know? We will get

the latest science from one of the world's foremost virus detectives. Finally, in this Earth

week, I'll tell you about the silver linings in the COVID crisis for Mother Earth.

But first, here's my take. Poor Brian Kemp. He obviously didn't get the memo. When the

governor of Georgia announced on Monday that he was going to begin opening up his state's

economy, he must have assumed the President Trump would lavish him with praise. After

just days earlier, the President had said publicly the country was starting our life again

and indicated that some states were ready to open up. On Wednesday, Trump tweeted, states

are safely coming back. Our country is starting to open for business again. And yet, ours

after that tweet at his daily press conference, the President announced that he disagreed strongly

with Kemp's decision. Welcome to Donald Trump's re-election strategy, where he is both the

government and the fiery opposition to that government. Popularism has always fundamentally

been a protest movement of outsiders railing against a corrupt elite that runs the country.

Right wing populism, additionally, makes a distinction between the real people and the

others who tend to be foreigners, immigrants, blacks, Jews, and other minorities. Now this

strategy works well when you're out of government. Once you're inside, though, you face a challenge.

Americans who win elections usually try to broaden their base and unify the nation. But

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