Trump did great things on the economy and foreign policy, and as we have just seen he gave us a conservative Supreme Court. But he failed badly on covid. If given a choice, I will probably choose DeSantis over Trump, but that doesn’t erase my gratitude to Trump for his good work.
Trump unfortunately thinks that the clot shots were a great achievement of his administration. DeSantis says quite accurately that the FDA works for Big Pharma. That is a compelling reason to prefer DeSantis as the nominee in 2024. Thank you President Trump, but I want President DeSantis bringing the corrupt FDA under control.
I don’t think he had any other choice politically on COVID. He didn’t have enough political strength in Congress to simply fire Fauci, Brix and others. He basically trusted the “experts” like all our initial reactions. Trump also was victim to the utter lack of professionalism by these “experts” and the “experts “ in the military and the rest of the bureaucracy. To make matters worse his ego seems to prevent him from admitting he was wrong on this. On COVID he wasn’t so much wrong as scammed. He should find a way to say that.
Still in my estimation he out-Reaganed Reagan! Best president in my lifetime and deserves a 2nd term if he wants it and is up to the rigors to get there.