The Editorial Board.

Poll shows increasing intolerance for the president’s weakness.

The Post’s Paul Waldman thinks the Republicans are preparing for Donald Trump to lose. That’s why they are talking up deficit reduction and cost cutting when they should be talking about doing everything—anything—possible to save the president. If you thought Trump could still win, your best move would be to give the economy the biggest…

The enemy of the GOP’s enemy is its friend.

More than two thousand people have died since I posted this afternoon today’s edition of the Editorial Board, and it’s not even suppertime on the west coast yet. Even as the president and his confederates move to “reopen” the economy, the frequency of death from Covid-19, which is caused by the new coronavirus, is getting…

A president without courage is a president without trust.

The president said today the coronavirus pandemic has been worse than Pearl Harbor and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. At the same time, he said his focus is “reopening” the economy, even if that means “some people” die. Now imagine FDR, or George W. Bush, saying, “Ignore the tragedy. Let’s get back to…

Instead of Iraqis, they’ll be Americans.

Remember this? This was the lie of the last Republican administration. Donald Trump is terrible, but even he has to put some effort into catching up with George W. Bush’s all-time whopper, a lie told to America to justify invading a country that did us no harm and that led to the deaths of hundreds…

Trump will believe he’s good even after 3,000 Americans die every day.

Mitch McConnell says the GOP is in no mood for a “blue-state bailout.” I’d bet that mood is going to change quick. According to WalletHub, Kentucky is No. 3 among the states seeing biggest increases in unemployment as a result of the pandemic. Given that blue states like Connecticut send billions more to red states…