By Angelo Codevilla January 26, 2021
The oligarchy’s chosen method of “reopening” after the pandemic shows that it intends to attempt to validate the harm it did over the previous year. Will it work?
Riding fear of COVID-19, our oligarchs persuaded millions of Americans to join in masked pantomime, to deliver themselves to something like house arrest, and to blame Donald Trump for their troubles. But as much as the oligarchs enjoyed COVID powers and dreamt of segueing them into a “new normal,” they knew that America could not be locked down forever.
They especially knew, were they to unseat Trump and become responsible for the country, their charges that he had failed to stop the pandemic would come back to haunt them. “Why can’t you stop it?” would be the natural question they would have to face as the virus did what airborne viruses do: spread. Hence, after January 20, dismounting the COVID tiger, albeit gingerly, became the order of the day.
And so it happened, on January 22, Joe Biden spoke the truth: nothing that anyone could do can alter the trajectory of the virus’ spread..........
But there is a larger reason why the
ruling class seems intent on distancing itself from responsibility for
the COVID restrictions. The oligarchs and their press agents had argued
the COVID troubles were 100 percent Trump’s fault, and defeating him
would alleviate them. Preserving the lockdowns is unsustainable
politically. But lifting the restrictions in the apparent face of rising
cases risks uncovering the fact that COVID was less a plague than a
political ploy. To repeat President Biden’s true statement of how little
government can do with regard to COVID is an indictment of the entire
oligarchy’s conduct since March. It exposes that conduct as political
predation with deadly consequences for millions. Hence, dismounting the
COVID tiger in a way that preserves the powers it gained for the
oligarchy requires some prestidigitation.................To Read More....
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