Seriously? I can do genetic fallacies too.
Just look at the facts. The NEJM is against the Trump administration because they believe they incompetently mishandled the early phases of testing when it was thousands of people involved and the errors in procedure were largely a result of years of FDA overregulation and bureacracy. It was a perfect storm of technical mistakes by the CDC, the speed by which the virus spread, and the overregulation of the FDA among the major factors that led to this issue. Blaming Trump is like blaming Bush for 9/11. People certainly will, but in reality s**t happens. As far as blaming Trump for not locking down longer, even WHO is advising against it.
Again, I'm not saying the response was perfect. There's a lot of information to disentangle of what Trump knew and decided. But, you can't just look at the bad. Trump's experience in business and running large corporations and willingness to work long hours probably saved many lives. I believe it's wrong to deify him while it's also wrong to demonize him. He has certain skills, but at the same time there are many presidents I would much rather be the president right now (e.g., Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., John Kennedy, etc.). It's just that Biden is spent. Just yesterday he was saying he's running for the US senate again, and he couldn't remember Mitt Romney's name. The latter is especially troubling because he didn't quickly change the topic but rather tried to describe Romney (a Mormon, a governor, a senator). That shows more cognitive decline than just a memory blank which is human. He doesn't know what he is saying. And, that's really scarey because as President you have to know what you're saying.
Look, at any time in history Biden wouldn't stand much of a chance. But, he's winning because people absolutely detest Trump. And, I get that. I detest him too, but I also see a president who I think has accomplished a lot and has made some very, very tough choices that most president's outside of Reagan perhaps would have not done but might have saved our butts. For example, pulling out of the intermediate range weapons arms treaty was difficult, but China wasn't part of that agreement and they are building up a huge arsenal that could have our navy paralyzed in the Pacific. Russia, whom Dems like to say Trump is too chumy, was furious we pulled out when they too weren't honoring the deal. How about the Space Force? It sounds kind of hooky, but Trump probably made the most important decision in his presidency by implementing it. We were about to lose terribly in space if we didn't respond to what our adversaries are doing in space. I tend to think Trump did something that few presidents would do. The arctic was being literally taken over by Russia and now China, and with sea lanes opening up we needed to establish US presence to protect ourselves from future incursions that is very close to the country. Trump repeatedly has shown the kind of assertiveness and aggressiveness at the right time in history. So, I changed some of my mind of him.
But, it's not easy. He's a complete dope.
