# Why the republicans are destined to fail **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 4, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-republicans-are-destined-to-fail/958919 "2022-02-04T18:12:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 282
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-republicans-are-destined-to-fail/958919/282 "2022-02-17T18:18:14Z")
These should get you started… Compiled by redditor u/Toxic\_Gorilla. Here’s a list of Trump’s failings in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, all sourced. Spring 2018: [Trump disbanded the pandemic response team assembled under President Obama during the ebola outbreak of 2014](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/). July 2019: [The Trump admin let go of Linda Quick, a CDC epidemiologist stationed in Beijing whose role was designed to help China detect and respond to outbreaks.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S) January 2020: [The Department of Health and Human Services deployed several federal workers to help Americans evacuated from China… without the proper training or protective gear.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/timeline-trump-administration-s-response-coronavirus-n1162206) February 2020: [Trump downplayed the threat of COVID-19 in multiple public statements, dissuading Americans from acting vigilantly.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/behind-trump-s-coronavirus-shift-n1157321) March 2020: - Trump repeatedly lied and made promises he didn’t keep as COVID-19 continued to spread. \*\* [On March 6, he assured us that the CDC’s testing kits were both plentiful and reliable.](https://thehill.com/homenews/news/486404-trump-compares-coronavirus-tests-to-ukraine-call-the-tests-are-all-perfect) \*\* [Then he said that leading health insurance companies would be waiving co-pays for coronavirus treatments.](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-novel-coronavirus-response) \*\* [Later that same week, he promised that we would soon see COVID-19 testing “on a very large scale basis”.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/trump-coronavirus-testing-will-soon-happen-on-large-scale-red-tape-cut-idUSKBN2101FI) [Two weeks later, we’re STILL seeing shortages of basic testing supplies.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/politics/coronavirus-swabs-supplies-shortage-states/index.html) - [When asked on March 13, he refused to take any responsibility for the scarcity and faultiness of the CDC’s testing kits - you know, the ones he assured us were both abundant and “beautiful” the week before.](https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2020/03/2020-time-capsule-3-i-dont-take-responsibility-at-all/608005/) - [Oh, and he falsely put the blame on Obama era regulations that never actually existed.](https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-misplaced-blame-on-obama-for-coronavirus-tests/) - [Trump refused for weeks to invoke the Defense Production Act to demand companies to produce more ventilators. He finally caved last Friday.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/general-motors-ventilators-defense-production-act/index.html) - [To date, he refuses to lift his ban on human fetal tissue research, which would prove invaluable in our efforts to concoct a coronavirus cure or treatment.](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/fetal-tissue-ban-blocks-study-potential-coronavirus-therapies) From another source: – He could have not shut down the government agencies established specifically to respond to medical crises like this – He could have begun stockpiling medical equipment & supplies in January 2020 when experts told him to, which would have prevented the shortages down the road – He could have started testing, tracking & vaccine programs in January 2020 instead of putting the US months behind by doing nothing – He could have publicly supported common-sense health measures instead of politicizing the virus response And a couple more lists; [https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jbd6lo/totally\_under\_control\_new\_secretlyfilmed/g8vpw1y/](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jbd6lo/totally_under_control_new_secretlyfilmed/g8vpw1y/) [https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/21242003/trump-failed-coronavirus-response](https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/21242003/trump-failed-coronavirus-response) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-republicans-are-destined-to-fail/958919)._