Everyone is so stupid!
"178,000 dead, how can anyone vote for Trump again" -every Dem on national TV
Guys, there was a worldwide pandemic! There were millions of casualties around the world! Trump is not a magician, and you stupid Dems have to stop making it as though he's a murderer for not stopping a pandemic from killing Americans!
Do I really need to explain how much worse it has been in the US than other countries? This is pretty much undisputed. Public health experts and epidemiologists estimate 70-90% of the US deaths were preventable. Never called him a murderer, but I'd hope you'd agree that failing to prevent that many deaths is problematic.
He stopped travel from infected countries WAY before Dems would have, and he was attacked for that. He locked down the country less than 24 hours after he was advised to do so by Doctor Fauci.
Trump only banned travel from China for non-US citizens. 40,000 people flew in from China between February and April.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html He refrained from pushing masks as long as the CDC said they didn't work (SO DID CUOMO and Dems, you Dem hypocrites).
I'm not here to praise Cuomo, but you are just factually wrong here. Cuomo issued a directive for all NYers to wear masks on April 15. Trump didn't publicly embrace mask-wearing until over three months later on July 21 (by which point 140,000 Americans had died). Even then he did so halfheartedly, and many people continue to cite to him in denying the efficacy of mask-wearing.
Oh, so his attitude now is more along the lines of 'we have to leave certain choices up to people', so now he's a mass murderer??? He's not like Cuomo who made a policy which led DIRECTLY to the deaths of A MUCH HIGHER percentage of people than other states.
I mean, there are countless examples of Trump's actions and failures to act, both in terms of receiving and ignoring evidence and expertise about the virus, and in terms of signaling toward local officials as to how they should approach the virus response in their states, that can be directly linked to outbreaks and deaths. Pandemic responses require the effective coordination of many agencies, and Trump was at the center of that, and he did not initiate, manage, or direct that coordination effectively. Great article here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/Sometimes people should just keep their mouths shut. Why open it when you reveal embarrassingly how partisan and dumb you are?
I would hope opening my mouth and revealing my stupidity would help you begin to see the mental gymnastics you need to perform to convince yourself Trump handled this crisis well. You need to create a version of yourself that doesn't trust epidemiologists, public health experts, and peer-reviewed studies. You need to identify others who failed and convince yourself that their failure means the person at the center of the national response is absolved of responsibility. You need to lie to yourself. In my experience these sorts of delusions are often motivated by partisanship. Enjoy what's on the other side of the leap you and much of the GOP have made from McCain and Romney's party to whatever the heck it is now.
