Donald Trump just got eaten alive

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The anti-Trump movement has an assortment of both moderate and left-leaning individuals and even a few conservatives who share a common goal of showing Donald Trump the door in the name of democracy and common decency, even if their ideologies clash on a number of other things. When Trump first ran for president in 2016, nearly every newspaper or media publication that followed politics endorsed his opponent for president instead – even the ones that notoriously leaned Republican and hadnโ€™t endorsed a Democrat in decades.

Weโ€™re likely to see the same trend with a number of newspapers and magazines endorsing Joe Biden over Trump this year, with a few notoriously conservative pundits coming out swinging against Trumpโ€™s incompetence already. Itโ€™s normally expected for newspaper editorial boards to make an endorsement, but one unlikely publication is sharply denouncing Trumpโ€™s candidacy for 2020.

Itโ€™s one thing for a news or political publication to have their preferences when it comes to a political candidate, but itโ€™s a little bit different when a medical journal, let alone one of the most prestigious medical research journals in the world, comes out against a presidential candidate. In The Lancetโ€™s opening editorial this week, they make it clear how hazardous a Trump administration is to public health at large: โ€œAmericans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.โ€

The article is a scathing indictment of the administrationโ€™s abysmal failure to tackle the problem and attacks Trump for his reliance on โ€œmagic bulletโ€ solutions – that hopefully a cure or vaccine will come soon and itโ€™ll no longer be his problem, rather than do anything to competently mitigate the risk of catching COVID-19 or slow down its spread. While the article makes no mention of Joe Biden, this is perhaps one of the strongest endorsements heโ€™s gotten this far – and a stark reminder that itโ€™s no longer a partisan statement to say that Donald Trumpโ€™s presidency is a serious threat to national security.

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