That hasn’t been my experience. Every Trumper I know is very much willing to criticize the president and OWS was one thing they did not support (albeit after the fact.) When Trump was touting it as one of the “wins” of his first administration while running in 2024, most of his supporters were face-palming.
Of course, the vaccine’s biggest supporters on the left never give the guy credit for OWS, so was it a good thing or not?
Trump never claimed credit when it happened because he was too busy trying to get Mike Pence to overthrow the results of an election. This is the thing: Trump DID have some immense successes right up until 1/6/21, including the Middle East deal and the rapid development of the vaccine. He absolutely deserves the credit for what happened under his watch.....just as he deserves the blame.
But I've watched too many Facebook Epidemiologists the last five years, who have turned into raging lunatics. And they're not an abnormal representation. The girl with whom I attended prom (38 years ago last night to be precise - yikes!).....has become a raging "why does a baby need a Hep B vaccine when that's an STD and babies don't have sex" idiot. She HAS to be smarter than this. Has to. But it's a matter of obeying "the Massuh" or being smart, and like too many she has chosen the wrong path.
They BEGAN by "I'm not taking this Covid vaccine because it hasn't been tested long enough or properly" - and turned that into "I'm not getting my kid the MMR vaccines because autism" and they all spout the same talking points. Skepticism about the Covid vax has become the slippery slope of "well, I won't get any vaccines" by people who looked me in the eye and lied about it.
And btw - I repeatedly point out all the pretentiousness from the media about Biden and a dozen other things, so we don't get to pretend Donald Trump wasn't
insinuating autism from vaccines all the way back in 2015, either:
He told a story of someone he said he knew: "Just the other day, two years old, 2½ years old, a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine, and came back, and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic," he said
Kid got autism in one week ranks right up there with his nonsensical tales about boys who go to school and come home as girls - and is about as scientific. He went with the old "we should slow it down" and now he has arrived at "maybe we should do away with it altogether."
This is the thing: millions of people (a far larger percentage btw) voted for Ronald Reagan twice. The GOP pre-Trump practically name dropped him at every single opportunity (they now pretend he never existed). But the difference was that Reagan's supporters
FOR THE MOST PART did not simply parrot what he said or automatically shift their views 90 minutes later. Same with Obama, and I'm using those two because by and large they are the two Presidents during my lifetime that would be said to have "mesmerizing" effects on the electorate (Newsweek shamelessly using the phrase The Second Coming about Obama, I mean come on). But even folks who would vote for them over and over did not show the level of cultic allegiance to either man that this six times bankrupt casino buffoon gets. Reagan's rating crashed in a week after the public learned he sold arms to Iran (his own pollster told him that he wouldn't have polled that badly if they learned he was sending arms to the USSR). The budget deficit by far was the issue that most voters were disappointed with Reagan at the end of his eight years (in all polls btw).
And it's so nice of Secretary Brain Worm to be able to tell us his vaccine study will be ready in September - which kinda makes the whole "no, I don't trust this vaccine because there wasn't enough study done" look like the LIE it actually is.
