Mandate Pivot

"My, my, my...how hell doth quicken the spirit."
--William Strannix (Under Siege)

With poll numbers and prediction markets indicating a bloodbath coming for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections, memos from party leadership have surely been circulating to ditch increasingly unpopular CV19-related mandates. Blue states and cities have been tripping over themselves over the past few days to announce that they will be rescinding mask mandates and ditching vaccine mandates. 

Leftists rhetoric is also pivoting away from lockdowns. The Biden administration has even had the audacity to claim that it has never supported lockdowns and that it was the Trump administration that gave them the green light.

Lesson: fear of being dethroned can drive even ardent authoritarians to become supporters of freedom and choice.

At least through election season...