Star Member underpants (167,202 posts)
3. They are changing the subject and declaring victory on masks
All over talk radio especially. I’ve heard it on Beck and our local drive time shows. Everyone agrees that they were right all along EVERYONE all their liberal friends and Bill Maher.
First of all, it is not republicans whoo are changing the subject.
Secondly, democrats are ceding ground on masks, that is why republicans are declaring victory. Of course, democrats are liable to cover their assess by claiming that's because of changing data (yeah right, data that sows they're in for a drubbing in November).
Third, so-called "science deniers" have been right on a lot of count. They were right there would be vaccine mandates. They were right that the virus would become endemic, and that human intervention cannot stomp it out. There is evidence they were right about the potential harms to kids because of masking and missed school. And so on.
kentuck (104,283 posts)
6. If they are now feeling safer, it is because of science.
And the fact that Democrats were willing to follow the advice of scientists and experts while they were indulging in superstition and insane "remedies". If the virus is finally going away, they get very little credit for it. They only made it last longer.
So what changed? Democrats didn't convince the unvaccinated to get vaccinated. What are they going to do, pivot and claim they never needed nearly as many people to get vaccinated as they claimed they needed?