In a conference call with governors on Monday, President Trump said that the federal government would step in if states did not do their jobs properly in regard to reopening for business: “The governors are making their decisions, and want to make their decisions, and that’s the way I want it too, and we will step in if we see something going wrong, or if we disagree, and some people say that’s nice, and some people say I shouldn’t be doing that, but we’re going to do it if we see something wrong… If you have any problem, let me know please, but it seems that the governors are largely happy. And I think I can say extraordinarily happy with respect to what we’ve done.”

The president has taken a hands-off attitude up to now and let the states run their virus response and reopening largely unimpeded by federal interference or oversight. But now, he seems to be changing his tune as some Democrat governors stall to retain the power over their residents, power they were only given to fight the virus.

“I’ve been focused on doing my job, and I’m going to keep doing that and I’m not going to apologize about that. I’m not changing the way I run this state because of some protests,” said Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to the press on Monday.

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“Republican legislators have convinced 4 justices to throw our state into chaos. We cannot let today’s ruling undo all the work we have done and all the sacrifices Wisconsinites have made over these past few months,” said Democrat Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers. Both have issues with fundamental aspects of our democratic system. For Whitmer, it seems to be her tin ear when it comes to the voice of the people. Evers seems to dislike judicial restraints on his power. Both show signs of rampant megalomania. The president, in a tweet, has a response to them:

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In related news, Trump said in a recent interview that there is only a small amount of disagreement between he and Dr. Anthony Fauci on reopening strategies. But where there is a difference of opinion the president did not mince words, “So [Fauci] is a good person, a very good person — I’ve disagreed with him. We have to get the schools open, we have to get our country open, we have to open our country. Now we want to do it safely, but we also want to do it as quickly as possible, we can’t keep going on like this… You’re having bedlam already in the streets, you can’t do this. We have to get it open. I totally disagree with him on schools.”

As he has done before, the president has intuited the national pulse on this and is acting accordingly. In city after city, state after state, residents have thrown off the nanny state shackles of virus regulations and commenced again with their own lives. The president knows this and applauds it. Democrat governors seek to stop it to retain extraordinary power. They are on the losing end of this argument. Events will soon end the argument.

This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on May 19, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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