Trump is pushing for a tax to protect against coronavirus blockade

Across the country, people have protested orders to stay home because of coronavirus. And who seems to be pushing that? President Trump via Twitter. Chris Cillizza explained how we went from social distance to thousands of people protesting.

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The Fox News host defended the blockade protest against Confederate flags and called on the governor of Michigan to call the Nazis fake.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-host-defends-michigan-protesters-with-confederate-flags-2020-4

The protests against the blockade are strange
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmxyd/the-anti-lockdown-protests-are-getting-weird

Conservatives Fuel Proton Against Coronavirus Blockade
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/texas-protests-stay-at-home.html

Trump supporters are mounting protests to join the Coronavirus
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-supporters-protest-coronavirus-orders

Public policy and public health clash in Michigan with angry protests against coronavirus shutdown
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-protests/index.html

Thousands gather in Lansing to proclaim the order of Whitmer’s house
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/15/lansing-capitol-protest-michigan-stay-home-order/5136842002/

Thousands gather in Lansing to proclaim the order of Whitmer’s house
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/15/lansing-capitol-protest-michigan-stay-home-order/5136842002/

“They hear me, they like me”: Trump aligns himself with demonstrations against Operation Gridlock
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-coronavirus-lockdown-operation-gridlock-anti-shutdown-protests-a9469826.html

Did Gretchen Whitmer go too far in the coronavirus fifties?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/gretchen-whitmer-operation-gridlock/index.html

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