The discussion about covid response is often clouded by a conflation of 2020 and 2021.
In 2020, the unceasing attack against Trump, including from countless Republicans, was that he wouldn’t listen to experts, wouldn’t impose fed mandates, wouldn’t stop pushing alternative therapies, wouldn’t back the “science,” and so on, ad infinitum. (Polling at this time sadly showed all kinds of support for profoundly restrictive federal requirements that Trump refused to impose at the height of the hysteria).
PPP loans were a response to international, state, city, local and corporate covid shutdowns — not federal ones.
Indeed, Biden “campaigned” on the idea that he would heed the very “experts” Trump had contradicted and shunned.
In 2021, Biden put these “experts” in charge. Soon after, Republican state officials and federal lawmakers mounted a resistance, following a growing public revolt against Democrats’ ruinous mandates, along with the piercing of the oppressive covid censorship regime.
The entire discussion becomes much clearer when we keep the timeline straight.
11:11 AM · Sep 27, 2023
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