Donald Trump’s strange way of thinking (opinion)
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Donald Trump’s strange way of thinking (opinion)

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Editor’s Note: Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. CNN — “There is nothing either good or bad,” Hamlet tells his old childhood buddies in Shakespeare’s play, “but thinking makes it so.” President Donald Trump borrowed that principle this week as he strove in vain to turn bad news about the coronavirus into some kind of positive, casting the fast-growing number of cases as a good thing – evidence of success in expanding testing. Based on those metrics, Trump’s campaign rally Saturday in Tulsa – his first since the Covid-19 outbreak – was a big fat failure on all counts.” At that rally, Trump said something that analyst David Axelrod, who was the strategist for Barack Obama’s two winning presidential campaigns, found “unintentionally revealing.” Trump conceded that Biden is “not radical left” – although he charged that the left does control him. Trump is underperforming among non-college white and evangelical voters, while suburban voters and people over 65 “give Biden the edge, and you can see the President’s challenge,” Axelrod wrote. In the 500-plus page memoir it’s hard to find any moment where Trump is portrayed in any kind of positive light.” For more on the book: Samantha Vinograd: The right title for Bolton’s book Charlie Dent: Congress should call Bolton to testify The weight of history Dave Whamond/Cagle Cartoons Some people have tried to “delegitimize” the Black Lives Matter movement with the saying, “All Lives Matter,” wrote Paxton K. Baker, one of the owners of the Washington Nationals.

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