We don’t imagine anyone on the left is ready to slap “Miss Me Yet?” bumper stickers on their cars for the departed Donald Trump administration, but Democrats are finding governing the country is a little more complicated than plug-n-play and blame.
The blame aspect got a little pushback Thursday from New York Times liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof, who suggested Democrats were so blinded by their hatred for Trump that they automatically took the other side when the former president suggested in-person learning would be better for students last summer.
“Many Democrats seemed to be more suspicious of in-person schooling last summer when President Donald Trump called for it,” he wrote in an opinion piece. “We shouldn’t let ourselves be driven by ideology rather than science.”
Experts have said online learning in the advent of the coronavirus is nowhere near as effective as in-person classes and that the damage that has been wrought is even worse for disadvantaged students.
It’s a “tragedy we haven’t adequately confronted,” Kristof said.