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Just one of several bad mistakes Trump made, made udder the advice of people he believed where the experts. He shouldn't have done it but I wouldn't call him an authoritarian. The authoritarians are teh ones who tried to force people to take a drug and who promoted punitive measures in response to any citizens who refused to bend the knee. Trump still support the vaccine (God only knows why he still believes in it) but he's always been against a vaccine mandate. Had Trump served a 2nd term I don't believe the lockdowns would have continued for as long as they did and I'm confident there would not have been any vaccine mandate for anyone.
I'd argue Trump was a president tricked by his own people into doing something he shouldn't have. At the start it was easy to sell most people on the idea of restrictive measures for a short while. Trump was making decisions based on lies and bad advice from people he believed were the experts and to be trusted. I doubt many presidents would not have gone along with the advice of people like Fauci at the start. It's how they behaved, what they did/supported after that initial first few months that are better representative of who they are. Imagine you're the president, you have no formal training/education in medicine let alone something like viruses and how they work, and the experts are telling you this is highly dangerous and millions will die if we don't do X right now. I would not fault any president for executing those restrictions at that time. Where I have issues is when it went past that promised 14 days to curve the spread and Trump was still supporting the restrictions.
The Biden administration is a far better example of an Authoritarian government as it is still forcing soldiers to get teh vaccine else face punitive measures and their doing this despite it being illegal and despite it being obvious at this point to the world in general that the vaccine is pointless and posses more of a risk than any benefit to all but maybe a very small high risk group. Had Trump served a 2nd term things would have played out VERY differently, far less authoritarian. He would have discovered like teh rest of us what Rand Paul was uncovering about Faucis lies and that is when I believe Trump would have stopped trusting the designated experts and start seeking advice/input outside of the government experts.
It's not his nature. Collectivists demanded authoritarianism. He reluctantly followed the advise of his collectivist health advisors, but it was always reluctant. You could tell. He wanted everything open by Easter, but they effectively wouldn't let him.
“Fool me once, shame on...shame on you, fool me...can’t get fooled again...”
Just one of several bad mistakes Trump made, made udder the advice of people he believed where the experts. He shouldn't have done it but I wouldn't call him an authoritarian. The authoritarians are teh ones who tried to force people to take a drug and who promoted punitive measures in response to any citizens who refused to bend the knee. Trump still support the vaccine (God only knows why he still believes in it) but he's always been against a vaccine mandate. Had Trump served a 2nd term I don't believe the lockdowns would have continued for as long as they did and I'm confident there would not have been any vaccine mandate for anyone.
I'd argue Trump was a president tricked by his own people into doing something he shouldn't have. At the start it was easy to sell most people on the idea of restrictive measures for a short while. Trump was making decisions based on lies and bad advice from people he believed were the experts and to be trusted. I doubt many presidents would not have gone along with the advice of people like Fauci at the start. It's how they behaved, what they did/supported after that initial first few months that are better representative of who they are. Imagine you're the president, you have no formal training/education in medicine let alone something like viruses and how they work, and the experts are telling you this is highly dangerous and millions will die if we don't do X right now. I would not fault any president for executing those restrictions at that time. Where I have issues is when it went past that promised 14 days to curve the spread and Trump was still supporting the restrictions.
The Biden administration is a far better example of an Authoritarian government as it is still forcing soldiers to get teh vaccine else face punitive measures and their doing this despite it being illegal and despite it being obvious at this point to the world in general that the vaccine is pointless and posses more of a risk than any benefit to all but maybe a very small high risk group. Had Trump served a 2nd term things would have played out VERY differently, far less authoritarian. He would have discovered like teh rest of us what Rand Paul was uncovering about Faucis lies and that is when I believe Trump would have stopped trusting the designated experts and start seeking advice/input outside of the government experts.
It's not his nature. Collectivists demanded authoritarianism. He reluctantly followed the advise of his collectivist health advisors, but it was always reluctant. You could tell. He wanted everything open by Easter, but they effectively wouldn't let him.