Ok, correct - there are many ways to violate a right. You said "taking away" originally; but it's the internet and no point in picking out a vocabulary error. We all make them and arguing over them just pushes us further apart. I get it, I agree with the point.
My point is mostly that on one hand you and so many other liberals are saying how slow and pathetic his response has been but called him a racist for stopping flights before anyone else, and said he was trampling rights after that. But then you accuse his response of being slow and pathetic, which is kind of the point. What's he supposed to do? Go into full lock down and arrest people for leaving their house? Where are the rights in that? And if he tried, would he face a similar criticism as he did for stopping flights?
No matter what he does, he is wrong just because he is Trump. And anyone who sees it differently is "brainwashed". But that is funny because being brainwashed is discounting any action and criticizing it for the person doing the action and not on the merit of the action itself.
This is, in my unimportant opinion, a tough line to balance on. He (and other people running the government) HAS to get people to do things to avoid contact, but has to avoid trampling rights and I think he's done an OK job of that. If I have to run to the store right now, I can - but I also know I should do everything I can to avoid it. But if I run out to the store I am not getting arrested for it.
Could he do better? Of course. But he isn't really getting any "help" from anyone - just criticism. He gets fought on everything. What has Pelosi done?
I think what TheBigT is thinking is articles like this:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/does-nancy-pelosi-know-about-the-coronavirus-outbreak/
And that is a conservative news outlet, so to highlight here's a liberal news outlet talking about how the Dems have it all right:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/27/democrats-have-right-idea-what-covid-19-relief-should-look-like/
And that juxtaposition I think is telling - as much as anyone wants to think their news isn't biased, it is. And both are probably wrong in a lot of ways. Fine.
But yeah, I can concede that politicians, whether conservative or liberal, are a mess. Term limits are badly needed. Until we have that, you do have a point that it isn't only democracts building governmental power - it is ALL politicians. They have incentive to do so by the nature of it being their career.