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| Trump last July |
Be not afraid, said President Donald Trump.
Recently released from Walter Reed Army Medical Center after
a bout with Coronavirus, Trump has now become a survivor. And because Trump is
Trump, he is a boastful survivor.
Just before he was set loose upon the world, Trump sent the
following message to the country: “I will be leaving the great Walter Reed
Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of
Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. I feel better than I did twenty years
ago.”
Almost immediately, the air was rent with the gnashing of
teeth and cries of derision. One could hear the metallic clang of swords being drawn
from scabbards.
There, you see, said the President’s critics, who are
legion, this illegitimate president does not take the pandemic seriously, even
after he has been afflicted – and worse, may have afflicted others – with Coronavirus.
This is a man who puts his own welfare first, when the welfare of the nation
should be paramount. He has done nothing to stem the spread of Coronavirus, and
he believes masks should be optional.
The Typhoid Mary of the group, some suppose, may have been
Hope Hicks, a reticent, media-shy presidential advisor who hails from
Connecticut. Tracing these things is not a science. It’s a little bit like
tracing grammatical mistakes through the impromptu remarks of former Vice
President Joe Biden; we don’t know when they began, why they began, or if they
will ever end.
The U.S. House of Representatives, presided over by Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, twice attempted to bum-rush Trump from the White House during
highly publicized impeachment efforts, both failures. Pelosi said she would pray for
Trump’s speedy recovery. Apparently, God has attended to her prayer. Democrat
presidential nominee Joe Biden issued a gracious self-imposed ban on nasty
political ads when Trump was admitted to Walter Reed. Now that the President
has been released, the nasty ads no doubt will resume post haste.
The partisan notion that Trump cares only about himself, not
the nation, falls upon stony ground.
There was a bit of a tousle between Trump and governors when Coronavirus came storming at the United States from what now
appears to be a Communist infested, military connected laboratory in Wuhan,
China. The governors argued persuasively that they were better able than the
President to battle Coronavirus. Trump gave way and thereafter facilitated
demands made by the governors.
Trump sent a Navy military hospital ship to New York, it has
long been forgotten, to assist Governor Andrew Cuomo with the Chinese
infestation. Cuomo did not make proper use of the hospital ship, choosing instead
to relieve hospital overload by sending infected patients to nursing homes,
which soon became Coronavirus mortuaries. About 60 percent of all Coronavirus
deaths in New York occurred in nursing homes; the figure is higher in
Connecticut.
Connecticut’s governor recently passed a bill – sorry,
regulation – that provides immunity for everyone responsible for the carnage. If
your Dad died in a nursing home because Lamont, Connecticut’s Coronavirus Czar,
was inattentive to nursing home needs, you are forbidden to sue by
gubernatorial edict.
It may seem rational that voters should conclude the governors slipped on blood, but Connecticut’s media is soft-shoeing this crisis. And now Lamont and Trump are suffering from the same problem; God must love irony.
Both are aware that government by edict has crashed the
economy, a matter less serious for the President, who may monetize the problem
by printing money. Because Trump had cut taxes and regulations, the national pre-Coronavirus
economy had some spring in its step. But not in Connecticut, suffering for
years from over-regulation, over-spending and over-taxation. Economically
malingering before Coronavirus and gubernatorial overreach, the entire state
has now become an entrepreneurial basket case – and everyone knows it,
including a partisan, pro-progressive media that continues to wink at disaster.
So frightened have people in Connecticut become by Democrats
who flourish the Coronavirus hobgoblin at every turn that a return to a robust
economy – and representative government – may have been put out of reach. Connecticut's economy has been diminishing for decades.
Lamont, at long last, appears ready to re-open the economy he closed –
because Connecticut's creative and inventive entrepreneurial sector MUST be restored if the state
is not to disappear in a mess of Coronavirus overcooked rhetoric -- but the
sound one hears in the background from the state's media and the Democrat caucus in a recumbent General Assembly is that of doors slamming shut. The governor
may have raised himself on his own petard; the explosion will not be long in
coming.
Lamont would be wise at this point to borrow a prophetic
message from Isaiah 41:10 – be not afraid. Why should Trump have all the best
lines?
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