‘If this were happening today, with a Republican President, as it was then, the media and the left would be pushing the theme of ‘can we really afford this?’, ‘Shouldn’t we be spending this money at home?’, ‘Was there negligence by the President?’, ‘What is the administration hiding about Apollo 13?’, etc. etc.’
Heck, it was going on then too. Senator Walter Mondole HATED the space program and with Apollo 12 losing its camera, and then 13’s close call, that was it - the last 3 Apollo flights, 3 FULLY BUILT ROCKETS, were grounded - so that we could ‘solve poverty’.
These people have not changed a bit - the only difference now is that Trump is forcing them to show their true colors.
You’re right, of course. It’s just that the ‘volume’ is much louder now, and they are much more ideological and aggressive.