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Opinion: Authoritarians rule by getting everyone to play along with their lies

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, right, speaks about the coronavirus Thursday, April 9, 2020, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. - photo by Associated Press

Trump coronavirus — President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, right, speaks about the coronavirus Thursday, April 9, 2020, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. - photo by Associated Press

For many weeks as the novel coronavirus spread President Trump called it “the flu,” claimed it could be treated in the same way as the flu and that it would take no greater a toll than the flu.