TBH it's a valid question of what resulted in more bodies: Democrat governors and the elderly death camps, or Trump popularizing the anti-mask movement. Probably the latter.
Trump could have taken the reigns, sold a bunch of MAGA masks, told his followers to be patriots and shelter for a couple months, and spin the whole thing like a war. Liberals would have had no choice but to fall in line or take the blame for spreading Covid like partisan retards.