The White House

Dear Mr. President:

Congratulations on your decision to extend your national social distancing directive through April. The strength you displayed in changing your mind is admirable. It is a wonderous show of courage, that you are large enough to refute your earlier words, your hope that churches would be packed on Easter.

I write as one who has questioned and even criticized actions of your presidency. But your directive opened my eyes to your path to reelection. I, too, love my country, and, like you, fear for its future, and want the same goal: the total defeat and elimination of the scourge of the coronavirus.

Your re-election, Mr. President, lies in unifying with the several governors on the front lines of the battle, especially Michigan. The coronavirus must be defeated immediately. Find your allies in these Democrats. The enemy of your enemy must be your friend. Gain a double victory by disarming these dogs nipping at your heels. Bury them with a flood of masks, gowns and gloves. Crush them with truckloads of ventilators.

Your fast action in this direction will be a blitzkrieg. You will have the element of total surprise. Whether Inslee is a snake or Michigan Governor Whitmer a halfwit is not a debate you need to win.

Instead, insist that they help you staff the frontlines, that they work as hard and long and tirelessly as you in removing the coronavirus from our shores.

Chase the governor of Louisiana into the sea by flooding his state with medical supplies.

That you are snatching victory from the jaws of defeat will be a win of historic proportions. It will be icing on the cake. Your jujitsu move will have you going down in history.

This is no April Fools wish. This is your possibility.

I am on your side.