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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

The utterly preventable spread of COVID-19 has killed more than 100,000 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, D.C. 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 mass uprising against ordinary racist police

violence in a democratic ruled city. Democrats leading a hashtag resistance to Trump now face

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