Trump should have known the TDS was so bad with the media and Democrats that he needed to use reverse psychology
1) he should have said close all the schools
2) require that you mask were masks everywhere
3) order that you can’t go to the park or beach
4) Order a nationwide shutdown
5) Allow people to visit Nursing homes in New York state
I much prefer the direct Trump, but I suspect that this reverse psychology quite possibly would have accomplished his aims. Given the tyrannical impulses of the Democrats, however, they may have reacted with something even worse. Perhaps, “good, yous sent your children to school today, but they’ll be locked in their schools immediately and never come home again, and you have no appeal.” Or, “grocery stores are closed immediately and forevermore, but some state bureaucrat may deliver a starvation pittance of food to whom the Democrat party favors.”
You’re on to something there!!