People giving Trump a pass because “he trusted the experts” are forgetting that it does not take an expert to understand that the government does not give rights and cannot take them away - even for an emergency. Period.
True conservatives knew instantly in March 2020, no matter if Covid was real or not, that you could not order, or even suggest, lockdowns because they were UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The NM Governor was paying attention - watched Trump/Fauci, and now says, “Hold My Beer...”
We knew nothing about this “novel” virus that had ppl dropping dead in the streets in China and ERs overflowing with dead ppl in Italy. To act like you knew “the truth” then is disingenuous. You had an opinion, I’m sure, but the modeling was showing 5 million dead Americans by the end of summer. Things didn’t start to add up until much later.