The Great Progressive Betrayal

Published November 20, 2020 4:00am ET



Much of the post-election hand-wringing about Democrats driving typically liberal voters into the hands of a Trump-led Republican Party has focused on where that effect was most pronounced: Hispanics in Florida and Texas. But that shouldn’t obscure the other glaring indicators of left-wing hypocrisy and the constituencies suffering because of it.

As conservatives have increasingly rallied for the reopening of our economy, liberals have been the loudest advocates for keeping it closed, no matter the cost. The most harmful aspects of the lockdowns fly in the face of science, making the suffering they cause unnecessary. That they do so knowingly makes the policies cruel as well.

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