Opinion: The pre-shutdown Donald Trump is back

On February 28, President Donald Trump told rallygoers at the North Charleston Coliseum in South Carolina that “the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus.” Painting it as “their new hoax,” deployed after the impeachment trial failed, Trump pointed to the small number of confirmed cases at that point and said, “And so far we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the United States. Nobody. And it doesn’t mean we won’t and we are totally prepared.”