Ohio's Governor Perfectly Illustrates
What Republican Impotence Looks Like
Ohio GOP Gov. Mike DeWine has been
the perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with the Republican Party for a
while now. His handling of COVID has been marked by an inconsistent, overly cowardly approach whereby he was behind the
curve on everything from lockdowns to mask mandates.
Unlike Gov. Ron DeSantis of
Florida, who has fought oppressive mandates at every level, DeWine
didn’t take an objective look at what was working and what wasn’t. Rather, he
sought to protect himself, putting in place oppressive mandates and restrictions
that appear to have amounted to nothing at all. In fact, Ohio and Florida ended
up with nearly identical COVID death rates despite their wildly
different policy decisions in regards to the pandemic.
DeWine has been so bad that he
didn’t even lift his state’s mask mandate until June 2nd, months and months
after it became clear masks weren’t anywhere close to a silver bullet. Worse,
he actually encouraged schools to keep masking children up –something that
lacks any scientific justification, at this point, with teachers largely being
vaccinated.
But it’s not just COVID where
DeWine has curled up into the fetal position, looking for CNN approval more
than doing what’s right. On the transgender sports issue, he’s already promised
to veto any legislation sent to him by Ohio’s GOP legislature that deals with
the issue.
There’s more here. And
with Jim Renacci running for Gov., well, that’d just be more
of the same.
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