The mandates have always been the big problem. I have been happy to see Trump criticize the mandates. That was crucial.
I have felt that it was unfortunate that he pushed the vaccines, but his administration did develop them, the scientists told him they were good, so it wasn’t too surprising that Trump was saying the vaccines were a good thing.
But it’s 2022.
It’s more obvious that the vaccines are bad.
It’s more obvious that we don’t need vaccines to make this thing go away.
It’s more obvious that his base doesn’t support the vaccines.
Trump isn’t dumb. He’s not pushing vaccines in 2022. Why would he? He’s learned a few things. Unlike Joe.
Agree, he was between and rock and a hard place but even then the Deep State overlords already planned they would not seat Trump for his second term since he was in the way of the take down of our country to 3rd world status. I’m glad that he has pivoted away from the absurdity of the Covid mandates. Certainly not a popular or winning issue.
It appears that perhaps the messaging from our scientists were misleading. They should had said that it's just like the flu shot. So when you get it, it "may" decrease your symptoms and amount of time you have the virus. It will not prevent transmission at all.
The problem would be that, people would say "it's just like the flu shot so why should I bother?" and that's not what our government wanted the people to do. So I think they mislead the public on purpose.
So the next time something like this happens, the American people will just tune out whatever NIH/CDC suggests we do and bam, we get hit hard by something like the Spanish flu.
Most Americans aren't well informed, and very few of them have any interest in being free, responsible people.
The average swing voter in the U.S. is a suburban Karen dingbat with an IQ of 90 and a lifetime supply of masks and hand sanitizer in the trunk of her car.
The issue is that if he believes as you say he does…why doesn’t he say that?