Why Trump is encouraging the coronavirus lockdown protests

Описание: Across the country, people have been protesting the stay-at-home orders due to coronavirus. And who seems to be encouraging this? President Trump via Twitter. Chris Cillizza explains how we went from social distancing to thousand-people protests.

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
Fox News host defended anti-lockdown protesters carrying Confederate flags and falsely accused Michigan's governor of calling them Nazis
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-h...

The Anti-Lockdown Protests Are Getting Weird
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5d...

Conservatives Fuel Protests Against Coronavirus Lockdowns
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us...

Trump Supporters Are Staging Armed Protests to Stick It to Coronavirus
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/...

Politics and public health collide in Michigan as governor faces angry protests over coronavirus shutdown
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politi...

Thousands converge on Lansing to protest Whitmer's stay home order
https://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...

Thousands converge on Lansing to protest Whitmer's stay home order
https://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...

‘They listen to me – they like me’: Trump aligns himself with Operation Gridlock anti-shutdown protesters
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...

Did Gretchen Whitmer go too far in her coronavirus quarantine?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politi...

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