Lockdowns went into effect March of 2020. Here's what I realized going back and looking at which Party controlled what part(s) of government at the time:
Senate: Republicans
House of Representatives: Republicans
Governorship: Republicans
Judiciary: Republicans
Presidency and Executive Branch: Republicans
The GOP held a majority in every relevant branch, at every layer of government. A clean sweep. And because states were still represented by the 2016 general, and 2018 mid-term elections, the majority of all states in lockdown were red.
Operation Warp Speed brought us the vaccine, rollout, and diagnostics, cost $10B and was the brainchild of the Trump Administration, which they bankrolled by raiding the fund for hospitals and health care providers affected by Covid-19.
The Cares Act worth $2.2T was passed by a majority Republican Congress, signed into law by Donald Trump's own hand in March 2020. This wasn't the last Covid bill of 2020 either. Greatest debt expansion in history.
In hindsight, it's not as rosy as some fanboy bitcoiners claim? My opinion is that the best arrangement for the US government is having a:
- Liberal President
- Conservative Supreme Court
- Liberal House
- Conservative Senate
- Liberal Governorship
An arrangement that allows the government to do the least domestically at this point is best; or a government forced to compromise at each turn. What made Trump one of the worst Presidents is that he had a clean sweep of the government, so much could've been done, but he couldn't compromise (or concentrate long enough) with his own Party to broker what could've made him an absolute legend. And I say that as a person that didn't vote for him. What a missed opportunity. Should he get imprisoned, the inbound President will look quite powerful commuting him.