This is isn’t a legit statement. We only had one shot in 100 years to have the right guy at the top during a novel pandemic. You put good people in charge because when things hit the fan you know they are up to the challenge. Trump never even stepped up to the plate. Anyone can slash regulations to the air and water and promise to drill Alaska. What matters in crisis mode is how you deal with non perfect situations.
And did he ever fail there. No leadership, conspiracy theories, shifting of blame around instead of tackling the problem head on.
My statement was not a defense of Trump. I was simply pointing out how anyone in that situation was fucked. There was no winning no matter what actions were taken, and all you need to do is look at the D responses to his actions to see that is correct.
In the early days of the pandemic, Trump did shut down travel to and from China, as well as, other places. The D response? He's xenophobic and this is an overreaction. Their response has been conveniently forgotten.
Early on Trump called this thing the "China virus" or something like that. The MSM and Ds did too, but that's been conveniently forgotten.
Early on Trump was doing whatever Fauci recommended, and Fauci was even praising him. Again, forgotten.
Throughout the whole thing Trump suggested it was man made, as did many in the scientific community. This was all reported seriously by the MSM early on, but somewhere along the line that suggestion got turned into a conspiracy theory. Now that Biden's admin is investigating and Fauci is openly suggesting it is true, the MSM is treating it seriously again. However, I've yet to see a single article titled: "Ok, maybe Trump was right about this one."
NONE of this is to suggest Trump did a good job. I mean, I don't even remember seeing him in a mask until somewhere around 6 months into the pandemic. Lead by example dipshit! And the way he shifted gears right in the middle because he was worried the crashing economy, due to the lockdowns, would negatively affect his chance to get re-elected was the height of selfishness.
Now granted, a D president would have gotten much better press, but the fact remains that the public still would have been pretty unhappy. Whoever was in charge was going to have to support masks, vaccines, and shutdowns, which were going to be unpopular. Even if Obama was still the president. And no matter what, the pandemic was going to negatively affect the economy.
At the end of the day, dealing with a crisis means doing so from start to finish, and he did not do that at all. He sucked, and might have done the worst job possible, but we don't honestly know that for sure. It's literally impossible for us to know how another R, a D, or anyone else would have handled things despite what our own biases want us to believe.
Catt's Saturday plans...
If he somehow wins in 2024...
Is Biden admin protecting Trump?
Long term thinking there. They're not protecting Trump himself, but rather the office of the president.
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