Ben Shapiro has thoughts on The Great Democratic Party pivot discussed yesterday.
All over the world, people are realizing that this is stupid and then it’s time to end it. The problem for Joe Biden is that he’s been stuck in “I will end COVID mode,” and he’s now created an entirely paranoid set of American citizens who believe the minute you take off a mask, you’ll be struck by the wrath of God.
When your worldview is completely off, you have two choices: One, shift your worldview and announce that you made a mistake or: Two, keep doubling down. And Joe Biden has to keep doubling down, because the minute he announces it was a mistake, guess who the hero of this story is? It is no longer Joe Biden, it is no longer Andrew Cuomo, it’s the evil, horrible, no-good, very-bad Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who took the exact opposite approach, and they can never allow that to happen.
I believe that Shapiro is right, in that there is a contingent of Democrats willing to mask and lockdown forever rather than admit Republicans were right. But I believe Shapiro overlooks the time honored gaslighting strategy, where the Biden Ministry of Truth solemnly announced that we’ve always been at war against mask mandates, and that a significant fraction of their mainstream media enablers will shamelessly parrot their new lie, just like Jen Paski shamelessly lied that it was Republicans that wanted to defund the police.
It won’t work for the vast majority of American voters, but they don’t really expect it to. It just gives them the delusional fig-leaf that they were never wrong, to be followed immediately followed by even more “shut up” and “you’re a racist,” then a nice foreign war or riots over a random dead black felon to help change the subject.
It’s the Democratic Party way.
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“It won’t work for the vast majority of American voters, but they don’t really expect it to.” No, but it’ll work on a sizeable, and disappointing number of Democrat voters
I have to disagree, strongly, with Shapiro.
President Biden doesn’t know what day it is, much less that he has to pivot.
Rather, his sock puppet handlers know he has to pivot.
Political tribalism is only one factor driving some people to irrationally cling to masks. That argument discounts a major factor, which is that there are a whole lot of bat-guano crazy morons walking among us.
The past two years have broken a lot of people beyond repair. Even in Texas, I still see people walking outside, alone on trails in the middle of the woods, masked. There are still loons driving around in their cars, alone, masked.
These people are living in a constant state of terror, under the influence of a toxic brew of hypochondria and scientific ignorance.
That’s not going to change for many, even after all the mandates are lifted, even if case counts drop to zero. This isn’t even their “new normal.” They were always like this. The masks have just made them easier to spot.
They’ll be with us for a long while, maybe forever.