He'd been president for more than 3 years when that crisis hit.
To me, it is an absolutely perfect piece of evidence that Trump's political career has been all about his ego right from the start. He only latched onto the GOP because he thought that was his best opportunity. He's not conservative, he's not progressive. He's just about Trump.
And so when it came down to a choice between doing the right thing, or taking the path he thought most likely to get him reelected, he chose the latter without a moment's hesitation.
I mean look at how he justifies it even today. He doesn't say he made a mistake, he doesn't say he did anything wrong. He just keeps repeating that he would have been attacked politically had he chosen a different course. And that's what the guy thinks as of today.
Why in the world should we assume that he's changed when he still saying the exact same thing now?
It's a particularly lame excuse when we all saw how a guy 30 years younger became the punching bag for the entire media when he chose to defy Fauci. But DeSantis didn't care about the criticism - he did the right thing anyway, and let the political chips fall where they may.
When the news of Covid first hit, my first thought was how this would be used during an election year.
There was nothing that Trump was going to do when it came to Covid that was going to be right. When early on he blocked any travel from China, the right decision, IMO, the Democrats and the media attacked him for that. In hindsight, there were mistakes made and things that could’ve been done differently. But that’s in hindsight. I want to know what will be different when the next pandemic hits. Governments did what governments naturally will do and that is use a crisis to expand their power
