Trump has done much good, no doubt.
And plenty of bad, as well. TrumpRyanCare, TrumpSwampVax, etc.
The Don fears Ron because Ron is a symbol against The Don's poison jab. Which, I believe, is going to become a bigger problem for Trump when the Red wave results in investigations into the Covid scams.
Not that I expect R party to indict or hurt Trump as punishment for bad policy. But there is little to zero chance that Trump comes out looking good or smart in retrospect.
Trump had a sloppy 3-some with BigGovt and BigPharma. He's a populist who abandoned any notion of swamp fighting when the manufactured fear (under his administration) resulted in popular support for Warp Speed mistakes to sooth that fear with the dumbest approach to a new cold virus EVER.
Yes, yes, everybody was against Trump... they gave him bad advice... blah, blah. He was president. He was in favor of the mistakes. Still brags.
If Ron wants to go there, then politically... Ron is to Don as Don was to Bush. Trump did not forgive Bush for Iraq simply because Bush got bad info. Trump destroyed Bush over a failed policy that cost much life and treasure. Just like Trump and the mis-managed war against a cold.
Your read on Trump & the COVID situation does not align with the history of the situation.
1. Trump is a business man; businessmen solve problems. They get experts and put the experts to work.
2. The CDC & NIH are corrupt and have been for decades. Institutional physicians are inherently attracted to an easier life without patients who die and any other accountability. They are in a side branch and over the years the corrupt NIH have supported only the physician researchers who hewed to the party line. This directly lead to fraudulent research both for grant money & for stipends from those with something to gain from pushing results, ie Pharmy, Gates, China.
3. Trump is an honest man. The thief cries thief, the honest man expects that there is some meaning to being a renowned scientist in charge of departments for decades.
4. When all the Government scientist told Trump that we would lose millions of lives he went full in for the American people - “not on his watch”.
5. Trump handled the crisis with 110% of his talent, ingenuity, thinking outside the box & grit. He mobilized on multiple fronts. When he found the cupboards bare in the CDC, bare in the hospitals which had ignored the reports by the hospital inspectors he moved mountains to get supplies, PPE, built temporary hospitals, transformed ships into floating hospitals. Got the armed forces to help with manpower & expertise. Set up direct lines of coordination with every Governor and supply chains were run by the armed forces. There was complete accountability. Ventilators were manufactured, disinfectants were produced because of Trump working with companies that were not in those fields but were able to retool for the crisis.
6. Trump wanted to focus on cures, drugs that would save lives & shorten illness. From the beginning that was his focus. There were drugs available that had proven efficacy and drugs that were likely candidates. Many had been in use for decades and had few side effects, a high therapeutic index. Even the use of light for which he was ridiculed was already in use in extracorporeal applications and in the lung via bronchoscopy. Light disinfects but those who wanted to discredit Trump and those who stood to make fortunes by a vaccine ridiculed Trump by pretending he wanted people to drink bleach.
7.In a time of crisis two things are true. You cannot destroy people’s confidence in the medical establishment without something to put in it’s place. Secondly you must move ahead without the luxury of in depth analysis.
8. Trump put the American people first in all of the above. When the CDC, NIH put the kibosh on using the safe, effective drugs and told the President the expensive and untested drugs & vaccine were the best chance he did not have the personal knowledge or training to go against them. He was also a little slower to suspect what unprincipled, ignorant financially motivated sociopaths they were because that modus operandi is so outside of his own.
9. Nevertheless Trump resisted any and all pressure to mandate vaccines or treatment. He said that he thought the vaccines were of benefit. He is a layman and that is what he was told by the “leading experts”. He bragged that they were developed quickly because he facilitated the resources. Remember he was told millions of Americans would die and he moved heaven & earth to save them.
10. Trump was lied to by corrupt venial sociopaths and didn’t catch on for months. He was in a battle to protect Americans and didn’t have the education, training or information to uncover the lie earlier. He did in the end realize that Fauci, scarf lady & many others were charlatans, making the most of their opportunity for power, notoriety & financial reward without regard for the welfare of America or Americans.
It was a perfect storm created by Fauci, Gates, China, Big Pharmy and the press. Blaming Trump is revolting and a poor return for his unfaltering efforts to save Americans while protecting their rights to choose medical treatment and States rights over decisions about how to react to COVID. Expressing his opinions while leaving the States control is a good thing not reprehensible. Your suggestion that DeSantis is a better leader is wishful thinking based on very little time of trial. There are many flashes in the pan but only one leader who has delivered on promises, taken no personal gain and has continued during tremendous assaults to fight for the betterment of all Americans and for American safety, security & prosperity.