– Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian, Rice University.
What a careful observation of the Nigerian social media space would reveal is that there is a silent, simmering and sentimental support for the American President, Donald Trump, as he prepares to slug it out at the polls with Joe Biden by the end of the year. The support comes from two flanks. On the one side are some South-Easterners who – wrongly – assume that Trump is a Biafran champion, and is working hard to help them actualise their dream of an independent Biafran nation.
But as COVID-19 rages through the United States, the scientific world has begun to fight back. The latest battlefield is the hydroxychloroquine debate. The malaria drug has been officially declared as unsuitable for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, but Trump has declared that it effective, and said he was taking it himself.
The truth is that what is at stake here is not hydroxychloroquine; it is the age-old battle between science and religion. President Trump – a politician who had tactically chosen the religious bandwagon as the populist highway to power in a country that prides itself for its rich Christian heritage – represents those who believe in miracles and God’s eternal ability to use any element as a healing wand.
This is the reason why some of his own staff seem to be against him. And, yes, most Americans even prefer to work with his “more reasonable” aides more than Trump himself. Last month, a New York Times/Siena College poll found that 67% of Americans trust Fauci, who is also the country’s top infectious diseases expert, for accurate information about the coronavirus, whereas only 25% trust Trump.
It is only in Africa, and, perhaps, other poor regions, that Trump could still find people to follow him in a faith-based campaign. And, had he realised this from the very start, he would not have called Africa a “shit-hole” continent.
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