Sen. Ben Sasse blamed the Chinese Communist Party’s “malfeasance and misrule” amid the rapidly spreading coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people.

The Nebraska Republican, writing for USA Today on Wednesday, said that “communism is the perfect incubator” for an outbreak to occur and highlighted Chinese whistleblowers who have been punished for sounding the alarm on the illness.

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