I really hope you're right that they are destroying themselves. The problem is that no matter how many times they move the goalposts, people seem to take it. It baffles me to see that Biden's BEST issue by far is Covid-19, even after a year and a half of this. Somehow people are absolutely overjoyed at his response, which was basically just what Trump was doing but with his "federal property mask mandate" and a lot of obsessive shows of masking (e.g. on that call with all the other world leaders), plus lecturing about vaccines.
Your point is that he might be bungling that good issue right now; my worry is that he's just bringing his winning issue into the conversation again and giving people what they want. If 63% of people are STILL happy with how he's handled things after a year and a half, what could possibly happen to change their minds this late into the game? All I can think is that the economy tanking might make people reconsider; I think it pretty much has to start to affect people personally for them to break out of their pattern of following whatever the mainstream media narrative is. Even then, they might just blame Trump (this is also coming from a politically homeless person who didn't vote for Trump either time, although I am registered Republican).
It's just frustrating beyond belief. This moment seems so terrible because it's the inverse of the CDC recommendation on 5/13 that really got the ball rolling on ending mask mandates in the US. After a few months I was starting to believe we were actually escaping, although with a lot of scary stuff going on in the rest of the world, e.g. vaccine passports and the return of lockdown to Aus/NZ.
I really hope you're right that they are destroying themselves. The problem is that no matter how many times they move the goalposts, people seem to take it. It baffles me to see that Biden's BEST issue by far is Covid-19, even after a year and a half of this. Somehow people are absolutely overjoyed at his response, which was basically just what Trump was doing but with his "federal property mask mandate" and a lot of obsessive shows of masking (e.g. on that call with all the other world leaders), plus lecturing about vaccines.
Your point is that he might be bungling that good issue right now; my worry is that he's just bringing his winning issue into the conversation again and giving people what they want. If 63% of people are STILL happy with how he's handled things after a year and a half, what could possibly happen to change their minds this late into the game? All I can think is that the economy tanking might make people reconsider; I think it pretty much has to start to affect people personally for them to break out of their pattern of following whatever the mainstream media narrative is. Even then, they might just blame Trump (this is also coming from a politically homeless person who didn't vote for Trump either time, although I am registered Republican).
It's just frustrating beyond belief. This moment seems so terrible because it's the inverse of the CDC recommendation on 5/13 that really got the ball rolling on ending mask mandates in the US. After a few months I was starting to believe we were actually escaping, although with a lot of scary stuff going on in the rest of the world, e.g. vaccine passports and the return of lockdown to Aus/NZ.