(April 12, 2021 at 11:55 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(April 12, 2021 at 9:00 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, people do listen to what their governments tell them to do, even if it is obviously stupid. People in the USA listened to Andrew Cuomo recommending them to put COVID patients into nursing homes not to overwhelm the hospitals. And around 30'000 people in Croatia went to a massive gathering, organized by the Croatian government, in Vukovar, to celebrate Vukovar Masacre, leading to a spike in COVID cases and deaths.Ummm...if there was no Trump, of course there would be no Trumpism.
I think it would be even more popular. If there had been no Trump, people who are anti-mask and anti-lockdown would not be accused of Trumpism.
Yes, but being against shutting down most of the economy for almost a year in the name of combating COVID (although not all studies find the effects of lockdowns, and those that do generally find it to be effective only if implemented very early and to be effective only for the first two or three weeks) is not the same as being a Trumpist.