There was plenty in my state, and i think the GOP was (and is) way less likely to interfere at the federal level with the states and localities opening things up. I also think they would have eased restrictions sooner at the federal level and not coddled the covidians still clinging to their masks and demanding every man/woman/child be injected in order to participate in public life. Neither party was blameless, but I believe we all fare better when the people in charge at least believe there is such a thing as private life, personal choice, and personal responsibility, and that we and our children don’t belong to the state. That is the opposite of most Dems’ worldview.
It’s not like they exactly stood up to them at the time. I don’t recall much pushback from the GOP on the lockdowns and then the mandates.
There was plenty in my state, and i think the GOP was (and is) way less likely to interfere at the federal level with the states and localities opening things up. I also think they would have eased restrictions sooner at the federal level and not coddled the covidians still clinging to their masks and demanding every man/woman/child be injected in order to participate in public life. Neither party was blameless, but I believe we all fare better when the people in charge at least believe there is such a thing as private life, personal choice, and personal responsibility, and that we and our children don’t belong to the state. That is the opposite of most Dems’ worldview.