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Can you provide any source for criticism from the left on this decision? I only found this: > Although Democratic leaders and Democratic presidential candidate

Can you provide any source for criticism from the left on this decision? I only found this: > Although Democratic leaders and Democratic presidential candidates have been highly critical of Trump’s response to the coronavirus, we couldn’t find any examples of them directly and clearly criticizing the travel restrictions. [0]: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel-restrictions/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel...

RandomTisk 7y ago
My Twitter timeline was full of people claiming xenophobia and racism for most of February and some of March, some with claims he was distracting from his impeachment. There was a coordinated effort by some jouralists to smear Trump as xenophobic and racist for what he was trying to do. Today they're saying he didn't do enough. There were many stories that were essentially down playing the virus and dog whistling to readers about Trump being a racist/xenophobic for his early actions. Edit: added video showing the media downplaying COVID-19 at late as March 3rd [3]. [0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/31/how-our-brains-make-coronavirus-seem-scarier-than-it-is/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/31/how-our-br... [1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/03/why-we-should-be-wary-an-aggressive-government-response-coronavirus/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/03/why-we-sho... [2]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/europe/coronavirus-stigma-europe.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/europe/coronavirus-... [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=wVDPVBZF2Xg&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=wVDPVBZF2Xg&...
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seanmcdirmid 7y ago
Ya, much of this controversy seems to have been made up by the right. Typical gas lighting, funny thing is I remember none of this actually happening at the time, banning travel china was mostly non-controversial outside of a niche. Maybe twitter?

RandomTisk 7y ago

My Twitter timeline was full of people claiming xenophobia and racism for most of February and some of March, some with claims he was distracting from his impeachment. There was a coordinated effort by some jouralists to smear Trump as xenophobic and racist for what he was trying to do. Today they're saying he didn't do enough. There were many stories that were essentially down playing the virus and dog whistling to readers about Trump being a racist/xenophobic for his early actions. Edit: added video showing the media downplaying COVID-19 at late as March 3rd [3]. [0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/31/how-our-brains-make-coronavirus-seem-scarier-than-it-is/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/31/how-our-br... [1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/03/why-we-should-be-wary-an-aggressive-government-response-coronavirus/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/03/why-we-sho... [2]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/europe/coronavirus-stigma-europe.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/europe/coronavirus-... [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=wVDPVBZF2Xg&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=wVDPVBZF2Xg&...

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seanmcdirmid 7y ago

Ya, much of this controversy seems to have been made up by the right. Typical gas lighting, funny thing is I remember none of this actually happening at the time, banning travel china was mostly non-controversial outside of a niche. Maybe twitter?