For those who managed to come to their senses as the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago came to an end, Democrats’ strategy for the 2024 presidential election is clear.
First, they want to rebrand Vice President Kamala Harris as a joyful, motherly figure who “cares” because she is black, she is a woman, she had a mother, and she once worked at McDonald’s.
Second, they will have to redefine themselves as the party of hope and progress, motivated by the refusal to “return” to a world where anarcho-terrorists roamed the streets calling for the destruction of the federal government. What will that look be like, I wonder?
And to achieve those goals, they will have to be able to put into effect the third pillar of this strategy: Democrats will have to rewrite history. And there is no greater example than COVID-19.
During the likely parade of speakers, one topic came up again and again: blaming former President Donald Trump for COVID-19.
Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor criticized Trump and state Republicans for failing to take care of people’s health.
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-MN) stood at her brother’s grave to say Trump was “playing games,” while the Biden-Harris leadership “stepped in with swift and decisive action. “
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) stood at the graves of his mother and stepfather and announced that Trump “told us to inject bleach into our bodies. “
For Democrats on both COVID-19 and spreading the lie that Trump asked others to inject bleach, it’s clear that the pandemic remains a central factor for many of their constituents, a step too important to be a memory. to fall into oblivion.
That’s why Democrats are indulging in the most absurd regime of living memory to blame Trump, and Trump alone, for everything that went wrong during the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, they escape as innocent victims of their intended failure.
Look, Trump didn’t deal with the pandemic like he did. Instead of following the lead of Republicans like Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), he refused to make balanced decisions that took other factors into account and relented. political strength to political-scientific crooks like Dr. Anthony Fauci. Trump even gave Fauci a medal at the end of his presidential term!
But there’s a huge difference between criticizing Trump for his mistakes in the context of his successes and the moves of others and doing what Democrats do: portray him as the scapegoat to blame for everything that happened at that time. time and all that is now.
Trump didn’t close their children’s schools, force their businesses close, force them to wear masks or get an endless stream of vaccines.
No, it was Democrats who did it: Democratic governors like Gavin Newsom of California, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, and J. B. Pritzker of Illinois and Democratic mayors such as Muriel Bowser in Washington, D. C. , Lori Lightfoot in Chicago and Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles.
And it was New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, not Trump, who moved COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, exposing the most vulnerable.
According to Democrats, Trump is to blame for any and all COVID-19 deaths during the Trump administration, and Trump is also to blame for any and all COVID-19 deaths during the Joe Biden-Harris administration. How convenient, given that many more people have died from COVID-19 under the Biden-Harris administration despite the COVID-19 vaccine he inherited from Trump.
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COVID-19 is a generational political failure that has crossed administrations and lines, and if we lived in a sane world, the next election would be a referendum on the most significant failure of the United States government in the history of fashion.
But if you let those who closed your schools, shut down your businesses, and forced your young people to wear masks rewrite their own failures, then you’ll not only allow them to get away with the crime of the century, but you’ll also praise them for it.
Ian Haworth is a columnist, speaker, and podcast host. You can do it in Substack and keep it in X in @ighaworth.