Friday, July 10, 2020 | 2 a.m.
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When an American makes an impact, we memorialize it. It is the Salk vaccine, not the polio vaccine.
This virus is the scourge that the president took poor aim at and made his own. The Republican Party staked a claim to its memory as well. It was this party’s governors that first opened beaches and bars, restaurants and gyms, against all scientific advice.
President Donald Trump and his party also pushed the novel idea that government cannot justly regulate its citizens’ behavior in any physical way, not even for safety and health.
The Trump presidency may be yesterday’s doughnut, but the virus, living seemingly forever, deserves his name. The two are inseparable. COVID-19 is truly the Trump Virus. It is also the Republican Virus, the virus that Trumpian democracy could not stop.
