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The Trump glorifying letter-to-the-editor, “Trump critics now in a sad place” by Paul Anderson published in this newspaper on March 17, claims those on the left are politicizing the COVID-19 pandemic. Anderson blames the lefties for calling the pandemic Trump’s Katrina and creating “The panic that has caused the stock market to drop and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-religion-blog","tag-how-democracies-die"],"yoast_head":"\nHow Democracies Die - May 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How Democracies Die outlines how popular, charismatic but unqualified people attract attention from a political party.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ffrfmaine.org\/home\/how-democracies-die\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Democracies Die - 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