CDC’s Redfield Could Be Most Powerful Trump Endorsement Yet

Musk's pronouns: Prosecute/Fauci

I was impressed Elon Musk, RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard all climbed aboard the Trump Train.  Even Mark Zuckerberg, once the former president’s bête noire, seems to be leaning somewhat that way, now identifying as a libertarian or “classical liberal,” whether out of expediency or belief we don’t know

But when Dr. Robert Redfield—the director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention through much of the “pandemic” (2018-2021)—wrote in Newsweek that he had joined RFK Jr and was supporting  Mr. Trump, I immediately thought this could be the most significant endorsement of all. 

The article , entitled “Donald Trump Has a Plan to Make America’s Children Healthy Again.  It’s a Good One”, begins:

“In 2019, the Trump Administration set a course to address chronic disease, funding earlier interventions to curb the growing crisis. Five years later, this issue is exactly where it needs to be: at the center of the presidential debate, now in a unique partnership.

“To heal our children, a president must see the possible and lead our nation to act. After more than 40 years in the public health arena, it might surprise some of my colleagues to know I think President Trump chose the right man for the job: Robert Kennedy, Jr.”

Mr. Kennedy, for his part, responded as follows:

"This was breathtaking to me because this is the guy who's the head of the CDC that I've been criticizing for years, and then this afternoon he came over and had lunch with me."

"And the first thing he said to me is: 'You got everything right.'"

This endorsement is major since Dr. Anthony Fauci (the subject of RFK Jr’s extraordinarily well-researched book), and therefore tacitly Dr. Redfield, virtually closed down nearly the entire Western World for several years with catastrophic economic results and, worse, drastic ramifications for children across the globe, setting them back educationally and developmentally in ways from which many will never recover.. 

The rest of us were largely locked in our houses, unless we were the governor of California.

Meanwhile, Big Pharma—Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna and Sinovac—raked in an estimated $90 billion in profits for their COVID-19 vaccines and medicines. Citizens in Third World countries that couldn’t afford their expensive drugs and substituted hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin apparently fared better.  We in the West are left with whatever these gifts of modern science have done to our bodies into the future.

It's safe to call what happened an unforgiveable crime.

Donald Trump, through his alliance with RFK Jr., has made it clear where he stands, although he too, for a while, was manipulated by Dr. Fauci and his colleagues. 

We must praise Dr. Redfield because it takes a brave man to admit you were wrong. Such people—especially those who were in positions of great authority as Dr. Redfield was-- are rare to non-existent in public life.  He could have slipped away like the majority of his cohorts have so far. 

As Elon Musk succinctly put it almost two years ago on his own social media:  “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci”.

Don’t expect any sort of similar transparency or reflection on COVID from President Biden or Kamala Harris.  One wonders if they are even intellectually capable of understanding much of what occurred.  (One also wonders if the “ever-so-green” Ms. Harris has the slightest grasp of the intricacies of climate science.)

Redfield’s endorsement is a big gift to the Republican Party, if they understand how to exploit it.  You would think since the entire country suffered under COVID-19 that would not be difficult, but the Republican National Committee, even under its improved leadership, does not appear particularly inventive. 

The old saw about the evil party (Democrats) and the stupid party (Republicans) alas still applies to some degree.  You can judge from the deeply unimaginative level of the solicitations we receive in our inboxes seemingly every ten minutes.

Nevertheless, the opportunity is great and Mr. Trump and Mr. Kennedy, together, perhaps with Dr. Redfield as well, should consider an address to the nation on what happened during the pandemic and how such disasters can be avoided in the future.  Unlike the puerile debates and staged townhalls, it might even be  useful.

ELECTION TEMPERATURE

At this writing, we are 40 days, 9 hours, 8 minutes and 2 seconds until the election.  By the time you are reading this, it will be closer.  My mood shifts faster than the election clock. 

At the moment I’m feeling optimistic because of the poll at the University of Notre Dame, the best news from South Bend since Knute Rockne.  It shows Trump leading Harris by 48% to 46% among their students.  This isn’t much, but in previous elections Biden led Trump 66 to 29 and Hillary led him 59 to 24.  Harbinger?

On a slightly related note, I have noticed the “Ragin’ Cajun” James Carville has been doing more than his usual amount of “ragin’” lately. Is the cause the close election?  Maybe it’s something else.  Maybe Carville doesn’t know what he’s fighting for anymore and it’s making him ornery. 

It doesn’t seem to me that a man who came to fame in the original Bill Clinton campaign (1992) would cotton to (pun intended) a vice-presidential candidate who puts Tampons in school boy’s rooms.  Nor, I would think,  would he have much interest in a presidential candidate who believes taxpayer’s should be financing so-called gender-affirming surgery for illegal aliens that, according to Mount Sinai Hospital, can add up to more than $100K per—and that’s just the beginning of maintaining this supposed care over a lifetime.

Maybe, just maybe, Mr. Carville is suffering from cognitive dissonance issues that Dr. Redfield no longer has to suffer from. What he is supporting is not his old ideology anymore (that’s gone) but a bad habit akin to smoking.  Hey, wasn’t the idea the Democrats were the party of the working class?... Oh, well.