DeSantis admitted he shouldn't have shut down for a single day.
Ah, hindsight. I admit that I should have bought bitcoin when it was 1$. The fact of the matter is he was a weak, woke follower and not a leader. And you don't know if this was so much an "admission" or him just saying what he needed to say to be popular with stupid people. You only get prove your mettle as the disaster is upon you, not after the fact making excuses.
You can't deny DeSantis took a lot of heat for letting his people go back to work in June 2020
I can't deny he scored with his base horde of stupid people; taking heat from liberals is a badge of honor. Only a few things opened in June. Most stayed locked down until the end of September. And it was still a partial opening even then. DeSantis didn't show BDE free-market supremacy at all, what he did is talk big while mostly following what other places were doing but maybe taking a handful more risk here and there.
while many states and countries stuck with scamdemic scare tactics. Bidenomics is a failed policy. After four years of this, you don't get to blame Trump for the current economy. And how is it that you're deviating from the Democrat talking point that, "The Biden economy is great, but people just don't appreciate it."
I haven't blamed Trump for the economy. Ajax, presidents have limited power over the economy. It's mainly stupid people like...well, you know who you are, who think a president single handedly saves or damns an economy. I point out factors that Trump policy contributed to inflation, since you hyperventilate about it constantly. I point out wealth is relative and regressive taxes hurt the working class in the long run even if they get a 50$ bump on their paycheck today. You say "four more years of this" like there's a magic solution Trump has for materializing 600,000 construction workers (such as locking down borders). There is no such thing as the "Biden economy" or the "Trump economy". I point out things like, you can't have de-globalization for free. If you want to lock down borders and quit trading, it will result in inflation. Biden is continuing the same policies Trump started in that regard. When it comes to government spending, it simply doesn't matter who is president because Republicans are proving they can outspend democrats. Trump signs his own name to the checks. You don't get to complain about Democrats spending when Trump signs his name to the 'stimulus' checks like a South American dictator would. I would have preferred less Covid spending, better targeted spending; better oversight on spending, but nobody on the left or right would have made a material difference in that regard so it is what it is. Biden at least has a plan and there is logic behind portions of his build back better plan. If you're going to decouple trade with China, for instance; if we're going to bring certain industries back on shore, government subsidies may actually be necessary because we'll be re-tooling for things we haven't done in decades. I'm not saying there's any magic (as you believe about Trump and DeSantis), but foreign policy basically congruent with spending.
Trump's trade war with China may have been the one thing he didn't totally F up. But, there's a cost to it, and reducing interest rates to zero to cover up for the price you're not willing to pay will only exasperate the problem.
I might as well add: Pick a right-wing Mayor, Ajax. I'll bet you that any right-wing mayor will have a totally different opinion from you on the economy over the last 4 years. I'll bet every single one of them have a Twitter account where they are bragging about how low unemployment is for their city.
Social distancing has likely already begun to flatten the curve...Continue to research good antivirals and vaccine candidates. Make everyone wear masks. -- J.D. Vance
