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In praise of President Trump’s positive thinking

15 March 2020

10:08 PM

15 March 2020

10:08 PM

An opinion piece in the Washington Post by Helaine Olen suggests that President Trump believes that the coronavirus can be conquered by the power of positive thinking (‘No, President Trump; the coronavirus won’t be fixed by positive thinking’), based on his enthusiasm for the philosophy of his early mentor, Norman Vincent Peale and his book, The Power of Positive Thinking.

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