Pfizer/BioNTech weren’t part of Warp Speed. And the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines were ready and had begun trials before they were part of Warp speed.
The only vaccine it might have had an impact on was potentially Moderna. But even Moderna had the vaccine ready well before the Trump administration even believed that the virus did not only affect Chinese people.
Finally, Warp Speed was not a brilliant new idea they came up with. It was part of the pandemic response plan the Obama administration had prepared many years ago. The difference is that if they had actually followed the plan warp speed would have been activated well before.
Pretty much the only thing that the Trump administration can be uniquely credited for is picking the name. Which, as we can see from the fact that the majority of current vaccine skeptics are worried about the speed at which the vaccines were created, was a terrible choice for a name.
Warp speed is the work of career guys. Not even Fauchi -- he was important, but these ideas are put together, presented, and executed by the unknown 9-to-5ers.
We call this the Deep State
The truth is that any government needs a ton of people to operate properly and you can't change all of them upon election.
Actually, scratch that, you can sort of do that every election/change of government.
Do you know where they do that? Failed states. Failed states change most if not all the government employees upon regime change, to put people from the new regime in their place.
It's an unmitigated disaster, because you also need people other than politicians to do the heavy lifting. And those skills can't always be built up over just 4 years, you need more than that. It's dumb to throw them away. Let alone the fact that changing them with the regime means that it's super unlikely you keep the competent people, you just get new loyal folks.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing (for the reasons you describe) but there's a fundamental deceit going on if the president can't actually control that bureaucracy (because people assume that he can).
If by “we” you mean fans of the arbitrary, irresponsible, corrupt patronage-based governance of the spoils system who use the term to denigrate the idea of a professional civil service with loyalty that extends beyond the person of the current chief executive on whom their tenure depends, then, sure, “we” do.
He made vaccinations a partisan wedge issue to such a degree that he can't afford to walk back from it if he wants to run again in 2024, similar to the Republicans' former position on Obamacare.
I think you may be getting their personal stances confused with the partisan arguments about vaccine mandates that have evolved in the year since.
I suspect the confusion between your perspective and that of the previous commenter is a result of the difficulty Trump experienced in trying to promote a vaccine for an illness he was himself at the same time claiming does not exist.