I think it's safe to say that if you have to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich the obvious choice is the giant douche, but it's still a giant douche and not a good political candidate.
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Honestly, I've got a somewhat nuanced opinion on Project Warpspeed and the jab. At the time a lot of people thought covid was actually a big deal, and it makes sense under such circumstances to fast-track whatever you can that might make things better. In that sense, it makes sense to try to make an untested experimental vaccine available.
The difference is when you drop the level of scrutiny on the jab, but then mandate it for a bunch of people. Trump didn't do that second part, as far as I recall. He certainly didn't do it in the rest of the world that decided that authoritarianism was the order of the day.
Of course then it turned out that covid was kinda bullshit all along, but hindsight is 20/20
The difference is when you drop the level of scrutiny on the jab, but then mandate it for a bunch of people. Trump didn't do that second part, as far as I recall. He certainly didn't do it in the rest of the world that decided that authoritarianism was the order of the day.
Of course then it turned out that covid was kinda bullshit all along, but hindsight is 20/20
Honestly, a small group can have an outsized impact by voting for a third party. If a party got 5-10% and it wasn't one of the big two, that'd be where they start doing some soul searching trying to figure out why they didn't get their share of those votes since 5-10% would be enough to change most American elections.