“I agree. Being the largest state at the time to fully open up was an act of tremendous courage.”
Trump was wrong on this but it took hindsight for this to be proven (he was being lied to by experts), but I will admit he was a bit to stubborn to relent on the vaccines. However, Kemp allow the destruction of country by hiding and supporting the upcoming voter fraud in retaliation.
Right - people forget the extent to which Covid19 was exploited as a political trap for Trump. The Left was baiting him to be “weak” in his response to Covid, so they could make Covid “Trump’s Katrina”.
The trap was set by putting Trump between a rock and a hard place. Damned if he did damned if he didn’t.
All the Left had to do to set the trap was keep upping the anti on lockdowns and mandates, until it was so painful, so unconstitutional and so intolerable that President Trump would oppose them or lose the support of his base.
And if he opposed the lockdowns or mandates, he could then be accused of being “weak” in his Covid response - he could be accused of not “following the science” - blamed for the spread Covid being worse than it otherwise would have been - and blamed for millions of deaths.
Covid was the perfect political trap - the way they teed it up with Fauci defining “the science”, the Democrat Governors putting the screws to the economy and the Bill of Rights, and the fake news media calling the plays - there was no way out for President Trump - he not could have survived it any better than he did.
In fact, it was amazing how well he survived it - but he did not get away unscathed.
Those of us who admire President Trump and understand what he was up against will have no problem forgiving him for occasionally getting on the wrong side of an issue - like operation warp speed.
He did great under awful circumstances, with nearly everyone hoping he’d fail, and I for one would be absolutely thrilled to see him serve his second term - if he is willing.