A few recent things made me reflect on some stands I’ve taken. Indeed, there are some things I need to correct. Michelle Obama still needs to run for President. COVID-19 vaccines and the mandates associated with them never prevented the spread. Yet, I may have gotten some things right. 

I thought I and ex-congressman Jason Chaffetz, now a Fox News commentator, were the only people who thought Joe Biden wasn’t running for re-election. While I have felt this was always the plan, Chaffetz points out that Biden isn’t doing the expected. Wall Street Journal Journal columnist Dan Henninger has weighed in with conclusions mirroring my own. Maybe the Republicans will wake up and realize a fresh Democratic face running against Trump guarantees a progressive victory. Only tying President Biden to his corrupt family business well before Trump clinches the nomination can spoil the plan. My warnings on Biden’s replacement, unfortunately, look better every day.

Why else would a judge set a court date one day before Super Tuesday? Keeping the ex-president front and center till then seems inevitable. 

Henninger calls the Democrats the “Evil Party” while he labels the Republicans the “Dumb Party.” The Republicans are doing everything to live up to this moniker.

 While Florida Governor Desantis is off the campaign trail managing the state’s response to a major hurricane, Fox News and others have seen fit to feature Vivek Ramaswamy. He may have appeared on every Fox program this week except Gutfeld, but maybe I missed him there. A college professor expounded on Fox that you must be a showman to win. I guess P.T. Barnum over Lincoln is today’s norm.

As the only part of the government with investigative powers the Republicans control, the House has to move ahead with all possible speed. If this means going to an impeachment inquiry, do it now. If not enough of their members are willing, we will at least know who is serious about winning. 

Other than initially misreading the efficiency of the COVID-19 vaccine, my series on the pandemic looks good. From the beginning, I supported the Swedish pandemic response over ours and many other nations’ actions. That nation garnered almost universal scorn for refusing to shut down, but their schools stayed open. Now, the facts are in. Rather than panic, Sweden adhered to pre-Coid pandemic plans there and in many nations, including the U.S. None of these plans called for universal lockdowns. 

Looking at the data available at the time, people drew different conclusions. On the advice of medical bureaucrats led by Dr. Fauci, the Trump administration went for a hard lockdown, including schools. President Trump himself castigated Sweden. 

There was no shortage of medical professionals and scientists favoring the Swedish decision to stay open while doing its best to protect the most vulnerable. This belief culminated in the nearly million people signing the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD).

The top Trump medical people tried to suppress and trash the Resolution and its authors. States agreeing with the essence of the Declaration either stayed open or, led by Florida, reopened. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis acted based on the available data and has not looked back. While taking extraordinary measures, such as a network of infusion stations to attend to the at-risk, he opened up everything, including schools.

The administration led by Anthony Fauci attacked the Governor for endangering people. President Trump never got a handle on the pandemic. While at times favoring reopening, as evidenced by the appointment of Dr. Scott Atlas, a GBD supporter, as an advisor, he never replaced Dr. Fauci. Donald Trump faced his greatest challenge and needed to develop a coherent strategy, but he never did. With many students staying out of school for extended times, lockdowns and wild spending hardly showed the type of thoughtful leadership DeSantis displayed in Florida. Trump, of course, attacked DeSantis over his Covid response.

It’s an understatement to say Sweden and DeSantis took enormous abuse from the Trump and Biden administrations and most of the media. Standing up to an almost universal attack for what is right takes a lot of character. We now know who was right, waffled, and flat-out wrong. The question is, who do we want to follow?