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Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. The utterly

preventable spread of COVID-19 has killed more than a hundred thousand Americans

and ended the entirety of economic and social reality as we knew it.

Trump, the president who has presided over this disaster, is now threatening to deploy the

military to cities nationwide and has already done so in Washington DC.

Liberal critics are right that Trump is dangerous, obviously.

But a true reckoning with Trump's threat to American norms and institutions

must account for how both of those things help make him

president. It must account for why this quarantine collapsed amid a historic

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