I don’t think he screwed up on this. It was at the time when we were bombarded by the hysteria coming from the news outlets of constantly being shown body bags due to covid. It what needed to be done by a president at the time of the pandemic.
Agreed. Isn’t 20-20 hindsight a wonderful thing?
Absolute, almost perfect, nonsense. For those of us who weren't hypochondriacal cowards and didn't give in to craven fear at the beginning of the so-called pandemic, it was quite evident in real time that the "warp speed" vaccines were an atrocious idea. That's why a significant percentage (albeit a minority) never took the vaccine and never, ever will.
Trump got played, big time. If he would simply 'fess up to that fact, that would be one thing. But he never will, insofar that he's a narcissistic asshole who will never, ever admit a mistake.
All that said, Trump ought to be, needs to be, and will be, the GOP nominee in 2024. DeSantis doesn't have clean hands with respect to his response to the pandemic. DeSantis was pushing the dangerous garbage vaccines, to the detriment of people in Florida, with the evidence for this being that some of the very worst monthly COVID kill rates in the entire country were to be seen in Florida after the vaccines were rolled out. That's simply the fact of the matter.