You can't really defend it, because we don't really know why he promoted it.
We think we know, but that then gets lumped into the 'Q conspiracy' box and I suspect you wanted to provide information without referencing 'The Plan'.
edit: Just for clarity, my guess at this part of the plan is that the alternative would have been much worse. I don't see Trump setting out to hurt people, but he might have had to compromise in order to direct a specific outcome which harmed less people than would otherwise have been the case.
However this is hypothesis and we don't have proof - yet.
If Trump couldn’t even get people to go along with HCQ, how could he ever get people to go along with a “the vax is poison” narrative? All that would have done is drive the establishment and the left further into their mandatory vax position, and made it much more difficult for the people who didn’t want it to not take it. By staying essentially neutral (aligning with th status quo), he removed himself from the equation and allowed many anti-Trumpers to resist the vax alongside ourselves.
You can't really defend it, because we don't really know why he promoted it.
We think we know, but that then gets lumped into the 'Q conspiracy' box and I suspect you wanted to provide information without referencing 'The Plan'.
edit: Just for clarity, my guess at this part of the plan is that the alternative would have been much worse. I don't see Trump setting out to hurt people, but he might have had to compromise in order to direct a specific outcome which harmed less people than would otherwise have been the case.
However this is hypothesis and we don't have proof - yet.
If Trump couldn’t even get people to go along with HCQ, how could he ever get people to go along with a “the vax is poison” narrative? All that would have done is drive the establishment and the left further into their mandatory vax position, and made it much more difficult for the people who didn’t want it to not take it. By staying essentially neutral (aligning with th status quo), he removed himself from the equation and allowed many anti-Trumpers to resist the vax alongside ourselves.
I don't disagree, it's certainly a possibility.
I don’t know a single anti trumper that resisted the vax lol