Mayors and many lower level politicians defying their Republican party leadership, will be remembered as true authentic heroes on the front lines of the current pandemic and it’s accompanying variants.
More and more news reports daily show an increasing number of mayors, school district superintendents, county health authorities, etc. publicly defying Republican governors and other Republican politicians who have ordered mask and vaccine mandates in order to protect the public’s health and well-being. This is now taking place in multiple states, including Texas, Nevada, Florida, Massachusetts, California, Utah, etc.
These individuals defying the Republican Governors and other Republican politicians who try to impose and follow thru on no-mask mandates are politicians who recognize their responsibility to the people they represent, and they do so by being ‘statesmen’.
Remember this quote?
“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”
― James Freeman Clarke