Might as well toss DeSantis there too. But we still have Romney!
I'm going to write in Liz Chaney. She offers all the repulsiveness of a NEOCON but also carries the established Republican imprimatur.
I still think that Trump is trying, at least in part, to smoke out the NeverTrumpers who fake supporting him.
Regardless, it’s definitely having that effect.
Wrong. DeSantis has definitely distinguished himself on the matter. As an example…
Ron DeSantis Goes All In on Vaccine Skepticism
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/ron-desantis-goes-all-in-on-vaccine-skepticism.html
F Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been trying to walk the same line with the anti-vaccine movement that he has with Donald Trump. He recognizes an important constituency within his party that alienates a majority of the public and has tried to draw its energy behind him without tying himself to it so publicly that he poisons his political viability.
The trick has allowed DeSantis to win over rabid Trump cultist anti-vaxxers even as pro-vaccine conservatives insist Desantis is on their side. National Review’s Dan McLaughlin describes DeSantis as “a vocal proponent of the COVID vaccines” who merely has a principled belief “that adults are free to make their own choices and take the consequences.” His colleague Charles C.W. Cooke sarcastically refers to “that noted anti-vaccination extremist, Ron DeSantis.”
After months of carefully walking this balance beam, DeSantis has fallen off. He has thrown in fully with the anti-vaxxers, and whatever thin plausible deniability he tried to maintain is gone.
You can see DeSantis’s progression from anti-anti-anti-vaxxer to simple anti-vaxxer by observing the increasingly strident tone and content of his stances. DeSantis has…
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LOL
Getting upset isn’t good for anyone in this situation just a determination to stay the course.
For me that course is to allow people the freedom to make their own decisions.
Trump can say I got the vaccine out there for people who want to use it and I’m proud of that. I have used it myself he can say that.
But Trump should also acknowledge the choices of those who choose not to use it and not the unvaccined to be pushed, prodded or coerced into getting the jab.
I live by that every day and can support Trump like I did in 2016 and 2020.
But his future communication about vaccination should take the views of all sides into account.
Trump will need vaccinated votes in 2024 and he will need unvaccinated votes too.
And when he supports candidates in 2022 he will have to keep in mind his audience will be vaxxed voters and unvaxxed voters as well.