Politics, my old boss Bob Novak said, is getting people to do the right thing for the wrong reasons.
Today, good politics won out. President Joe Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which would like to be considered an apolitical body, has read the room.
When Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin last month rolled back mask mandates, Democrats and the news media reacted with righteous anger, confident they had the public on their side. Then a bipartisan group of state legislators in Virginia, all up for reelection next year, passed a law basically codifying the rules that were so atrocious when issued by Youngkin.
Around the same time, Democratic governors in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, and Colorado, along with liberal Catholic bishops, began to dismantle their mask mandates. And so Biden’s campaign conducted a poll and found that people were actually sick of being forced to don these totems of the faith of COVIDism.
Here’s the memo sent out by Biden’s pollsters.
https://twitter.com/hamill_law/status/1497205184790872065Biden has his election-year State of the Union address next week, and so he realized he needs to take credit for a shift that was happening against his will — normal people becoming 100% done with the futile and harmful COVID rules.
I had argued a month ago that Catholic schools and diocese needed to lead the secular bureaucracy and political class toward the truth. Aided by Democratic governors up for reelection, they did. And Biden followed and brought THE SCIENCE along with him. This is how politics works — and public health, too, it seems.
