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This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci's new autobiography goes on sale, and it contains a horrifying chapter about

his service under President Donald Trump during the coronavirus pandemic. It portrays Trump as

lacking in the most rudimentary of knowledge, prone to fits of explosive rage, and perpetually

narcissistically viewing major national events as being all about him.

We think this should be covered not as a curiosity about the past, but as a loud, clanging alarm

bell about what a second term of Trump would inflict on the country.

And today we're discussing this with one of our favorite guests, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman,

who has written a series of great columns on voter amnesia about what Trump's last year in office

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