With a brashness familiar to any parent, President Trump has repeatedly waved away the idea of wearing a face mask. It’s an odd bit of machismo, both obvious in its focus on image and yet passive in how Trump presents it. …
Republicans are less likely to indicate they wear masks regularly and, for some, going without a mask serves as a sort of inverse Gadsden flag. Trump reinforces this partisanship, telling the Wall Street Journal in an interview this week that some people might wear masks specifically as a way of demonstrating opposition to him. …
This position, though, isn’t the majority one even in Trump’s party. Americans broadly view wearing a mask favorably, according to new polling from Fox News. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post
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