Democrats, facing a bloodbath in the November midterm elections, have turned to focus groups and polls to see what the best pandemic policy is. If you’re wondering what they saw, just look at what Democratic governors suddenly started doing about their states’ mask mandates.
When we first saw New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Delaware Gov. John Carney announce they were dropping their mandates both inside and outside of schools, we marveled at what seemed like extraordinary, if very belated, courage. After all, their fellow Democratic partisans had been demonizing Republican governors for doing exactly the same thing, even calling them murderers. But subsequently, many more Democrats abruptly, and without any visible explanation, similarly changed course on pandemic restrictions.
