Well, it’s probably going to be a bloodbath for Democrats no matter what happens, but perhaps some things can be done to limit the damage. Democrats around the country, namely Governors and other elected officials, are concerned that the White House, having entirely botched its winter Covid response, is stuck in no-mans-land when it comes to ongoing Covid policies and restrictions.
In short, Democrats have become the party of fear, panic, and authoritarian mandates that accomplish little more than ongoing division.
If something doesn’t change quick, Democrats will be heading into the midterms still being the official “Party of No” when it comes to giving people their freedoms back:
It’s a move that would have been unthinkable last year: Weeks after a holiday surge crushed hospitals and more people died in a single month than a typical annual flu season, four Democratic governors this week declared an end date to statewide mask mandates in schools.
Still, the message from the Democratic governors to President Joe Biden was unmistakable: With the midterms nine months away, Democrats are now joining the chorus of Republicans who say the nation must learn to “live with the virus” and are pressing Biden to chart a path forward.
“Democratic voters have run out of empathy for unvaccinated people dying of COVID,” said Brian Stryker, a partner at Impact Research, a Democratic polling firm. “They are ready to live their lives.”
If 2021 was the year of the vaccine, 2022 is already shaping up to be the year voters demand the U.S. moves on.
Uh, sure, if Democrats want to see it as they just can’t keep holding out for 100% vaccination rates, whatever they have to tell themselves. There will never be 100% vaccination across the board, anyone who thought so was delusional. This is about a demand that Covid nonsense ends and ends soon.
Americans are have wised up in the past two months as the White Houe bungled its Covid plan and testing availability. There is no way to mandate the country out of this virus, there never was:
For many Americans, though, including a growing number of Democratic voters, living with COVID means loosening restrictions regardless of case counts or vaccination status.
According to a new Axios/Ipsos poll, two-thirds of Americans say they do not believe it’s possible for the U.S. to eradicate the coronavirus within the next year, although they are divided about how to handle that.
Cases will tick up and tick down, should we run for cover and shut things down if cases cross a certain threshold? More and more people say it’s not worth it, we’re tired of disruption and chaos. Children especially have taken the brunt of things over the past two years, it’s time to focus on fixing what the health bureaucracy broke since March of 2020.
Anyone who put their trust in Joe Biden to magically wave his wand and end this with some well-formulated plan has had a crash course about government incompetence.
In fact, perhaps that’s what is finally bringing Democrats around to the point where many of us started back in 2020. There is no way a slow-moving bureaucracy can outpace and win against a highly contagious airborne virus no matter who is in charge. It’s not possible in a free country that values personal liberty. Period.
Seeing that not even Biden, who promised to “shut down the virus,” can actually change course, perhaps more Democrats have realized this isn’t going away anytime soon.
Normalcy beckons and the White House will need to get on board and give Democrats cover around the country to feel like they aren’t capitulating exclusively to Republican demands as they loosen restrictions.
What will Biden say in his State of the Union address on March 1? Will be it a pledge for normalcy and a lifeline for a weary country, or more of the same in mandates and limited freedom?
