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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
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Agree with the clear assessment here, but..."mostly satisfactory" covid response?? I seem to remember a president first praising China for doing a great job containing it (they werent) while denying it would come here, and then, when it arrived, saying it would quickly go away, when he had *data telling him the exact opposite*. He was in unsupported downplaying mode for months. He undermined testing and tracking efforts. He scoffed even at reasonable late pandemic requests to wear masks to indo…
Despite his very obvious personality flaws during the pandemic, it’s not obvious to me that the outcome would have been very different with someone else in charge in 2020. That may be why the "mostly satisfactory" rating makes sense to many.
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"Someone else", ok. I suppose another leader could've dragged their feet, downplayed, and willfully undermined, in their own ways. No one could've handled it perfectly of course. Then imagine someone who simply knew early on to take it seriously and acted accordingly, who had a plan in place, who hit the ground running and didn't undermine efforts to get it under control (but rather boosted them), who rallied industry and public sentiment, who rejected misinformation and image concerns (This do…
There were other leaders at that time. This was a global issue. Other than extreme measures that were taken in places like Australia and New Zealand, nothing really worked. Biden did a poor job even though the vaccine was ready when he took office. More people died in 2021 compared to 2020. Other than better leadership vibes and optics, I don't agree with the argument that another President would have achieved significantly better results in 2020.
Biden didn’t help much after the vaccine rollout, declaring it over prematurely. So yeah, someone stronger and more capable than Biden in place when it hit, which would’ve improved eventual vaccine uptake as well, being Trump supporters drove vaccine denial. (To be fair, a Biden admin wouldn’t have gutted the Obama pandemic protocols. Biden even tweeted in October 2019 we weren’t prepared for a global pandemic. Look it up.) Anyone doing the polar opposite of the particular performative foot-dr…
