It’s more or less expected that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement would eschew the vax, resemble “conservatives” and support the Constitution. After all, they give lip service to all that. And so we figure they would cast an upturned nose at candidates who are both as unconstitutional and un-conservative as they come.
Like Biden and Harris.
In light of these optics, why do the red caps warmly embrace a contender like The Don?
After all, he is on record as not only demanding constitutional immunity and supporting the vax, but he brags about how quickly he got it out the door. He even claims it saves lives and cures cancer:
❝The Pandemic no longer controls our lives. The Vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat Cancer – Turning setback into comeback!” YOU’RE WELCOME, JOE, NINE MONTH APPROVAL TIME VS. 12 YEARS THAT IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU!❞ (7 MAR 2024)
The foul reek of duplicity
Of course, this once-Reform party, once-Democrat, and once-Independent now flip-flopped to the Republican side politician finds it’s easy to waffle and it’s not always expedient to gush on about his vaccine because, well… it’s just not:
“I really don’t want to talk about it because, as a Republican, it’s not a great thing to talk about, because for some reason it’s just not.”
JUNE 2023
For. Some. Reason.
Just when the GOP’s boy seemed halfway cogent and slightly less deceitful, he pulls this out of his hat: a retort resembling the vacuous word salads dripping with the regurgitated double standards of the other faction’s cerebral giants.
Like Biden and Harris.
All Donald has to do is open his yap to make clear he can sound precisely like the disturbed idiots his voter base pretends to detest.
However, it’s possible that while talking out the other side of his mouth, all Trump needed was to blast DeSantis for supporting the vaccine:
“The real Ron is a RINO GLOBALIST, who closed quickly down Florida and even its beaches,” blared Trump. “Loved the [COVID-19] Vaccines and wasted big money on ‘Testing.’ How quickly people forget!”
FEBRUARY 2023
It’s hardly necessary to point out the stench of Don’s two faces that berates Ron for favoring the same vaccine he himself champions.
And when the vaccination that requires booster after booster after booster naturally failed him—after all, it really isn’t a vaccine, is it?—Trump, who was “far sicker than the White House disclosed,” turned to monoclonal antibodies to save his bacon.
That’s right. The vaccine Donald brags “saved us” from COVID couldn’t save him from it! (And please note what wasn’t prescribed: remdesivir).
So why didn’t Trump simply get yet another booster? Because it’s the vaccine that wasn’t. On his watch and “early in the pandemic, US public health officials promised that the phase 3 trials would prove the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were ‘safe and effective,’ including a reduction in severe disease, hospitalization, and death, with a secondary endpoint of preventing transmission and infection. Nine vaccine manufacturers issued an unprecedented joint statement pledging not to prematurely seek regulatory review. Both sets of assurances were delivered to a population already suffering from pandemic fatigue, mostly attributable to lockdowns, masking, social distancing, and other restrictions imposed by the same agencies responsible for ushering in the vaccination program. Despite the rhetoric, no large randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials have ever demonstrated reductions in SARS-CoV-2 transmission, hospitalization, or death.”
In hindsight, “the previously undisclosed observation that twice as many cardiac deaths occurred proportionately among vaccinated compared to unvaccinated subjects in the Pfizer trial would likely have prompted the FDA’s reevaluation” of the whole shootin’ match.
The “decision to declare the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines ‘safe and effective’ for worldwide distribution after only 20 weeks of observation seems dubious at best.” And criminal at worst.
Just win and what you stand for be damned
Trump, who has been vaccinated, boosted and is proud of it, panders to his anti-vax voter base by keeping a well-placed cork in the left side of his pie hole, not because his position has changed, but because he’s a politician.
Like Biden and Harris.
The idea is to win. Tell the serfs what they want to hear. Or, keep quiet about what you know they won’t abide.
Because the MAGA peeps want a win, they must pretend DJT is one of them—who else do they have?
The red caps like to label their detractors with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). There’s just one problem: The pejorative doesn’t apply to their opposition.
Nope, it’s much, much closer to home.
The mental disconnect actually belongs to “conservatives” who slavishly support a non-conservative. The cognitive dissonance befits those who claim to be constitutional but who clamor for a candidate who refuses constitutional constraints.
The inconsistent, conflicting beliefs originate with those who vehemently oppose forced medical interventions and the lethal vaccine while simultaneously promoting a contender who makes the vaccine a main bullet point in his political resumé.
The disease has nothing to do with Don’s detractors. It’s entrenched in his own camp. It’s that good ol’ song and dance: Hold dear what your candidate won’t, support him, and claim he still represents you—all at the same time.
We have met the MAGA and it is them. They seem to bask in all their self-deranged glory.
Politically, one may evaluate Trump against many criteria and claim he outshines the current crop of other propped-up, sellout politicians.
Like Biden and Harris.
(Seriously, such a low bar isn’t saying much.)
But in foresight, Trump’s track record, braggadocio and stated intentions cannot exonerate the pathetically obvious disconnect his MAGA base has with their we-gotta-win-cuz-we-have-nobody-else-even-though-he-supports-the-vax-and-we-don’t candidate.
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