[Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues]

I preface this comment by noting that I am an admirer of Presidents Reagan and Trump, both great men; I couldn’t walk an hour in their shoes.

However, whatever chicanery Reagan let the Dems get away with, pales in comparison to Trump’s handling of covid.

He essentially ceded control of the country to the malevolent dwarf, scarf lady and the rest of the covid cabal - he compounded that mistake by touting ‘his’ vaccines (and still does I believe).

All true, but if you are implying Reagan would have stood up to the malevolent dwarf, you are mistaken, because said dwarf ran the response to AIDS under Reagan.

He pushed much of the same crap back then: spreading fear, pushing the idea that all were equally at risk, ineffective methods to prevent the spread, mandating expensive toxic drugs and suppressing the off-label use of approved drugs.

And was he ever reigned in, much less held accountable for what he did to the country?

Hell no. He not only got away with it, he went on to get rewarded, and was only emboldened to run the same crap again, and add new tactics to it.

[RonaldusMagnus-DonaldusMagnus]

Touché. Great post. Said dwarf did indeed run a similar playbook this time around.

I don’t think, or rather, I’d hate to think that the Gipper would have allowed the nation to be put under house arrest because of the flu.

If I may, my own amateurish psychoanalysis of Trump and why I think he (and maybe the Gipper would have as well) lost control of the covid response:

While a ruthless businessman, I think at the core, he’s good guy who loves his country and wants what is best for it. He can’t imagine that other people, particularly those in government, don’t. This would also explain his horrible, no good, bad personnel decisions.

In any case, at least in the short term, we’re screwed.