Jeffrey Tucker Right, Trump Wrong

 Before the main course.........Jeffrey Tucker is a very, very, smart guy.  We know him from another association (not Brownstone) and he was very impressive.

Here, he demolishes Donald Trump over the Covid thing.  Tucker's analysis is off-target, but he makes a number of good points.

An accurate analysis would be that Donald Trump cannot admit he was wrong.  That is his real problem.

A recap is provided by PowerLine.

Tucker:

...We need to know why the churches, schools, and businesses were closed at the urging of the White House. We need to know why we faced travel restrictions, why government printed and spent multiple trillions that produced crushing inflation, why the hospitals were shut to elective surgeries and diagnostics, and how it came to be that the fourth branch of government – the administrative state – became the only government in the last year of his term and largely remains so today....

...There are so many questions crying out for answers. In this interview, however, he says that he left it up to the states under a federalist idea. This is the line bandied about in Mar-a-Lago and no one around him dares question it.

It is demonstrably untrue. The one state that stayed almost entirely open – South Dakota – was in defiance of the White House in doing so. The first state to open up after that was Georgia under Governor Kemp, whom Trump blasted for the decision. Moreover, Trump has repeatedly bragged about how he shut down the country, as if that makes him awesome....

There's more.  

By the way, Tucker raises a very important question:  can (or will) Trump destroy the Administrative State which now runs the US?

Reality time for Jeffrey Tucker and the rest of the world:  Trump ceded control of the Covid thing because Trump was facing lots of bureaucrats with lots of MDs and PhDs in biological sciences.  Neither Jeffrey Tucker, nor 90% of you, dear readers, would have the nerve to tell all those credentialed people to take their warnings and stick them where the Sun never shines.

Especially after they tell him that 10 MILLION Americans could die.

So yes.  Trump was wrong.  His problem is that he's never going to admit it.