The contest over who disregarded public health recommendations most fanatically is shaping up to be an election-season theme for the GOP. zakcheneyrice writes
South Dakota Governor Kristie Noem. Photo: Rachel Mummey/Bloomberg via Getty Images Last week, Kristi Noem went to Iowa to spin suffering into political gold. The Republican governor of South Dakota has spent months trying to separate herself from the pack of presumed 2024 presidential hopefuls and spent Friday testing her message on conservatives in Des Moines.
“To pretend that they didn’t take actions that they had no authority to take isn’t standing on truth,” she said of fellow Republican governors, whom she didn’t mention by name, on Friday, according to the Associated Press. “We’ve got Republican governors across this country pretending they didn’t shut down their states; that they didn’t close their regions; that they didn’t mandate masks,” she said at a CPAC event in Texas earlier this month. “Now I’m not picking fights with Republican governors. All I’m saying is that we need leaders with grit. That their first instinct is the right instinct.”
The remarkable subtext here is that lots of people had to get sick and die for this to become a GOP campaign issue. As of Tuesday, Noem’s South Dakota had experienced more coronavirus deaths per 100,000 people than all but nine other states, and more infections per 100,000 people than all but two. Noem and DeSantis have each embraced a performance of obstinance. Both seem to want to claim the mantle of who ignored pandemic safety recommendations most resolutely, and who caved the least when faced with pressure to change course.
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