We expect the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement to eschew the vax, to resemble “conservatives” and support the Constitution, as they give lip service to all that. Accordingly, we also expect them to 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)
Of course, this once-Reform party, once-Democrat and once-Independent now flip-flopped to the Republican side finds it’s easy to waffle and not always expedient to brag 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
Just when the GOP’s boy seemed halfway cogent and slightly less duplicitous, 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.
And like many, all Don has to do is open his yap to make clear he can sound precisely like the disturbed idiots his voter base claims not to be. What is MAGA thinking?
However, it’s quite possible that while talking out the other side of his mouth, all Don wanted was to blast DeSantis for supporting the vaccine:
“The real Ron is a RINO GLOBALIST, who closed quickly down Florida and even its beaches,” Trump decried. “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 Trump’s two faces that berate DeSantis’ for liking the same vaccine he favors.
And when that vaccine that requires booster after booster after booster naturally failed him, Trump, who was “far sicker than the White House disclosed,” turned to monoclonal antibodies to save his bacon.
So why didn’t he simply get another booster? Because it’s the vaccine that wasn’t, and “despite the rhetoric, no large randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials have ever demonstrated reductions in SARS-CoV-2 transmission, hospitalization, or death.”
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 the anti-vax voter base by keeping his mouth shut, not because his position has changed, but because he’s a politician.
Like Biden and Harris.
The idea is to win: Tell your fans what they want to hear. Or in this case, keep quiet about things you know they won’t swallow.
Because the MAGA peeps also want a win, they have to pretend he’s one of them—who else do they have?
The red caps like to label their detractors with the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). There’s just one problem: The pejorative doesn’t apply to Trump’s opposition. Nope, it’s 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 refusing 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 creation of the vaccine a main selling point.
The disease has nothing to do with Don’s detractors. It’s entrenched within his own camp. It’s that good ol’ song and dance: Claim to believe what you’re candidate won’t.
We have met the MAGA and it is them, in all its self-deranged glory.
Now, politically or morally, one may evaluate Trump against many criteria and find he easily 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 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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