Trump's Old Populist Playbook:

Trump and his followers want to place the onus for the social and economic restraints that are still in effect in much of the country on cities, many of them heavily black, where the coronavirus has been most destructive. https://nyti.ms/351MQcX 
Get ready for the noxious blend of Confederate flags, semiautomatic weaponry, conspiracy theorists, political cultists, extremists and nut jobs coming to a state Capitol near you.

The "liberty movement" supported by tRump is protesting against the guidelines instituted by tRump.
This is perfect for the Angry White Trumper
People in blue states, guided by the elites & know-it-alls(smart people) they hate, stealing a march on them by being better and more civic minded citizens than they are. So now it’s ‘fighting tyranny,’ because they’ve got nothing else.
More cocked hats & revolutionary war coats, combined with "tiny penis compensation devices" (AR-15 rifles) are being trotted out by the undereducated (& irrepressibly proud of it) rubes in Angrywhitemanistan.

Give me liberty or give me death!

Gasping & alone in an ICU somewhere
The unexpected scale of the pandemic in Detroit & Chicago, & its pronounced impact on African-American communities in cities across the Midwest, lays bare a longstanding reality: The older industrial cities of the Midwest are home to America’s sharpest Black-white racist divides.
Racially divided regions such as Detroit, Cleveland, and Milwaukee fed the rise of Donald Trump, with his scapegoating of people of color and nostalgic appeals to white working-class voters yearning for a return to the “good old days.”

But don't call them racists!
#BadChicken
Trump tries to shift blame for the pandemic onto communities of color in urban areas. The urban-rural divide is also a racial one. Many of Trump’s base are white people from rural areas that have thus far been somewhat insulated from the disease but not from the economic fallout.
Most protesting the stay-at-home orders are white.
The depressing reality is:
It’s likely to be Black & Latino Americans who suffer the most economically from the pandemic. Black unemployment is already at least twice as high as white unemployment, and that gap is likely to grow.
Will Bunch, columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is more outspoken in his critique of Trump & the coronavirus liberation movement, arguing that the protesters are unknowingly fronting for the wealthiest Americans
like the billionaire family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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