[Hoot Gibson]

The reason red states are awash in cases right now---not 'flourishing', that may be the most ignorant thing ever posted on here--is because their governors and/or citizens chose to follow the lead of their beloved leader and ignore what was going on, hoping it would 'just go away'.  Oops.  Wrong path.  And Trump did lose the vote btw.  By a very large, totally legal amount.

What percentage of all fatalities have consisted of New York residents? Of the ten states with the most fatalities, how many of them have Democrat governors? Of the bottom ten states in total fatalities, how many have Republican governors? You are a Democrat hack in every sense of the word. No honest person would blame the president of this republic for all the deaths from a pandemic. We have a federal system of government and the chief executive of each state has certain responsibilities. Democrats look for scapegoats. Trump seeks and finds solutions.

New York and the larger states obviously have the most deaths, but their rates are way down because of the steps they have taken. Back when the pandemic first hit is when they were hit really hard, with a part of the reason being the fact that the White House did not have a plan or a consolidated national response and left states to fend for themselves, unlike in other countries with Real Leaders.

When you start tossing allegations that Trump is responsible for 240,000+ deaths, then the fact that New York and other states with liberal Democrat governors were the sites of most of those deaths is not a trivial fact. Trump facilitated the development of effective vaccines in record time. When governors like Andrew Cuomo whined about potential shortages of ventilators, Trump sent large numbers of ventilators to New York and the state never needed more ventilators than they actually had on hand. When Cuomo and other governors complained that the hospitals were going to be overwhelmed, Trump sent hospital ships and had temporary hospital facilities deployed to those states, which went almost unused.

The indisputable fact is that in the early days of the pandemic, Democrats attacked Trump for being too aggressive with measures such as travel bans. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, you claim that he moved too slow and did not take decisive action early enough. You don't get to have it both ways. We have a federal system of government and the only government actions that clearly cost thousands of lives were taken by a handful of really incompetent state governors. Don't let your hatred of Trump play tricks with your memories of historical events.

Your reference to Animal Farm is childish. What Trump did and what Cuomo and a few other incompetent governors did in fighting the pandemic is not ancient history. You should be better versed in reality before attempting to use allegorical devices to support your baseless arguments.