President Donald Trump's vow Tuesday that he would "love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter," less than three weeks from now, was the clearest signal yet of the political logic he hopes to follow in a presidential campaign shadowed by global pandemic.
He is eager to own the only good thing about a crisis that has paralyzed the country and left millions of people in housebound despair: The reality that life will at some point slowly lurch back to normal.
He is determined to make other people-specifically, governors and public health officials-own everything else, including the reality that massive shutdowns will continue long after the Christian holy day on April 12.
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