Will you let Democrats blame Trump for their COVID-19 failures?

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For those who managed to cling to consciousness as the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago finally drew to a close, the Democrats’ strategy for the 2024 presidential election became clear.

First, they must rebrand Vice President Kamala Harris as a joyous, mother-like figure who “cares” because she’s black, she’s a woman, she had a mother, and she once worked at McDonald’s.

Second, they must rebrand themselves as the party of hope and progress, motivated by a refusal to “go back” to a world where anarcho-terrorists roamed the streets calling for the destruction of the federal government. What must that be like, I wonder?

And in order to achieve these goals, they must be able to pull off the third pillar of this strategy: Democrats must rewrite history. And there is no better example than COVID-19.

During the seemingly endless parade of speakers, there was a theme that came back time after time: Blame former President Donald Trump for COVID-19.

Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor blamed Trump and state Republicans for failing to protect people’s health.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-MN) stood on the grave of her brother to say Trump was “playing games,” while the Biden-Harris administration “stepped in with quick and decisive action.”

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) stood on the graves of his mother and stepfather and announced that Trump “told us to inject bleach into our bodies.”

For the Democrats to focus on COVID-19 to this extent, including by spreading the lie that Trump instructed people to inject bleach, it’s clear that the pandemic remains a central issue for many of their voters, too big of a milestone to memory-hole into oblivion.

And so Democrats are engaging in the most absurd gaslighting routine in living memory to blame Trump, and Trump alone, for everything that went wrong during the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, they escape as blameless victims of his supposed failure.

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