You hoped to have the country reopen by Easter and you said earlier you would like to see churches packed.

Who suggested Easter? Who suggested Easter?

I guess that was a beautiful time. I'd love to see it coming even sooner, but I just think it would be a beautiful time line.

Jen?

Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan, coming to you from my home near Washington, DC,

and very much still social distancing. Perhaps the President Trump's great disappointment.

When they say they're willing to die for the economy, what they really mean is they're willing to let you die for the economy.

That's what they mean.

That's my guest today, the brilliant chronicler of the Trump era Atlantic writer Adam Sauer.

And yes, to be clear, Trump and his Fox News media echo chamber want to reopen the economy by Easter

and bats kill hundreds of thousands of people in the process.

But why? Why would anyone in a position of such power defy the medical experts and risk so many innocent American lives?

What goes on inside that deranged orange head of his?

On Sunday night, Fox News host Steve Hilton, who I'm embarrassed to say is a fellow British immigrant,

he said this on his show.

Our ruling class and their TV mouthpieces whipping up fear over this virus,

they're going to forge an indefinite shutdown. Working Americans can't, they'll be crushed by it.

You know that famous phrase, the cure is worse than the disease?

That is exactly the territory we are hurtling towards.

You think is just the coronavirus that kills people?

This total economic shutdown will kill people.

Hours later, Donald Trump was repeating that line.

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