Once again this administration’s focus and fascination with hydroxychloroquine has led to yet another event, a verbal fight breaking out on CNN this morning between administration economic trade advisor Peter Navarro and CNN on-air personality John Berman.

After a long discussion about Covid-19 and the use of hydroxychloroquine, with verbal sparring back and forth, Berman attempted to wind-up the interview by making the sensible point that “we all want the same thing, which is that people get better.”

Navorro replied just as we’re expecting this administration to reply these days: “I am not sure we do sometimes.”

Berman then asked: “What do you mean?”

Navarro seemed to want to backtrack a bit and stumbled around, mumbling words at a half-hearted attempt to explain himself, but Berman had heard enough:

“Don’t you dare for a second suggest that I don’t want people to get better, I got two friends in bed right now.”

This obviously required some retort, and Navorro replied like a defensive snowflake and switched to passive aggression:

“That’s not what I said, don’t put those words in my mouth! When you say that when we come on here and we say we all want the same thing, there’s this political overtone, this battle between, you know, you’re trying to create this false dichotomy.”

Do not bother trying to interpret what Navarro said, or try to make it sensible fit the discussion, because I spent twenty minutes and cannot figure out what he was saying other than the usual administration need to always divide, even where there is no divide. They will create one.

“There’s no false dichotomy! We want people to get better!”

I cannot believe how hard this administration is working to keep Americans apart. We want to rally, we want to be “one country” and bring out the best in each other, but that just doesn’t feel right to this administration. They’re only comfortable fighting, and that’s why they haven’t spent one minute in their years in the White House with greater than 50% approval ratings.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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