It was stupid of me to believe that Biden was going to come in and ride the wave of economic growth that Trump stimulated.

There are a lot of people in my circles saying "It was Trump's fault" or "It was Biden's fault" that we are currently in a recession, and the truth is that there are some good arguments on both sides. The left makes none of them, libertarians make some of them, but there are real arguments for both of those conclusions.

Here's what bothers me: I have NEVER faced more opposition from my circle of friends than I did when I opposed 15 days to flatten the curve in 2020. 90%+ of my friends were on the other side, many of them deeply nasty about it. I was told I don't care about people, that I was a cultish ideologue, that I was going to get thousands of people killed through my advocacy of defying lockdowns, that I was either too stupid to understand the science or was cynically disregarding it for political reasons, and that it didn't matter to me if people die.

Some of those same people are now engaging in this fight over whether Trump or Biden is to blame for the recession. They oughta look in the mirror before they start blaming other people. Very few people can honestly say they pass this test. As someone who genuinely can, I can attest to just how fierce the opposition to freedom was ON THE RIGHT at the start of all of this.

I have made mistakes in my political support in the past. I didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016, for example. I am not saying you should be damned for eternity if you felt that way. I am saying that you should look at yourself and the way you engage politically as the primary thing to change in order to prevent this from happening again so soon after a previous recession. If you don't do that, they're gonna play you like a sucker again next time.