"On July 6th, he posted another of his incendiary all-cap tweets. 'SCHOOLS MUST REOPEN IN THE FALL,"'it read. The next day, at a White House event, the president said, 'We're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools. It's very important for our country. It's very important for the well-being of the students and the parents.' Trump was right. It was important. But by this late stage in his presidency, just about every democrat assumed that anything he said was a lie. That was especially true with his pandemic statements. This, after all, was a man who suggested that ingesting disinfectant might deter the virus. If Trump thought schools should be open, all the more reason to fight to keep them closed. The strong reaction against anything that came out of Trump's mouth was understandable on one level, but on another level, it was inexcusable. Long before vaccine hesitancy became an issue, the fight over schools was an early sign of how stupidly polarized the country had become. And in this case, it wasn't the red states refusing to follow the science. It was blue state democrats, who valued their political affiliation over common sense, and even over their pre-pandemic pretensions about protecting the underprivileged."
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