[Mick]

It's obviously way too early to write history here.  The story of the vaccine will be a fascinating one when it appears. I hope to live to read it.

I'm glad Trump is gone, and his behavior these last six weeks has been so god-awful one is reluctant to give him credit for anything. Still, the fact is he bet his Presidency on being able to deliver a vaccine before Election Day, and lost by about three weeks. In fact, he might not have lost at all if he weren't so personally obnoxious. Pfizer and Moderna were close enough to have put out favorable press before the election, but chose not to. They don't like him very much. Neither do I.

That said, he was not a bad chief executive, apart from the horrible personal style, and his administration did have its achievements. He almost certainly deserves some credit. How much? Wait five years and we may find out. One thing for sure, Joe Biden, who is a practical politician, is going to take all the credit offered to him. He's no fool.

And conversely, Biden will blame Trump for everything that goes wrong during the next four years (on the off- off-chance that Biden actually lasts the full four years).  He'll blame Trump just as his former boss President Obama blamed George Bush for Obama's sickly economic recovery in the sixth year of Obama's presidency.  Bush was at least personally likeable.  Even Michelle Obama has warmed up to him.  No one will warm up to the cretinous Trump.

[Mick]

It's obviously way too early to write history here.  The story of the vaccine will be a fascinating one when it appears. I hope to live to read it.

I'm glad Trump is gone, and his behavior these last six weeks has been so god-awful one is reluctant to give him credit for anything. Still, the fact is he bet his Presidency on being able to deliver a vaccine before Election Day, and lost by about three weeks. In fact, he might not have lost at all if he weren't so personally obnoxious. Pfizer and Moderna were close enough to have put out favorable press before the election, but chose not to. They don't like him very much. Neither do I.

That said, he was not a bad chief executive, apart from the horrible personal style, and his administration did have its achievements. He almost certainly deserves some credit. How much? Wait five years and we may find out. One thing for sure, Joe Biden, who is a practical politician, is going to take all the credit offered to him. He's no fool.

And conversely, Biden will blame Trump for everything that goes wrong during the next four years (on the off- off-chance that Biden actually lasts the full four years).  He'll blame Trump just as his former boss President Obama blamed George Bush for Obama's sickly economic recovery in the sixth year of Obama's presidency.  Bush was at least personally likeable.  Even Michelle Obama has warmed up to him.  No one will warm up to the cretinous Trump.