Who needs to win elections when you can personally reestablish the social order every day on Twitter and Facebook? When you can scold, and scold, and scold. That's their future, and it’s a satisfying one: a finger wagging in some vulgar proletarian's face, forever.
Taibbi continues:
In the Trump years the sector of society we used to describe as liberal America became a giant finger-wagging machine. The news media, academia, the Democratic Party, show-business celebrities and masses of blue-checked Twitter virtuosos became a kind of umbrella agreement society, united by loathing of Trump and fury toward anyone who dissented with their preoccupations.
When the Covid-19 crisis struck, the scolding utopia was no longer abstraction. The dream was reality! Pure communism had arrived! Failure to take elite advice was no longer just a deplorable faux pas. Not heeding experts was now murder. It could not be tolerated. Media coverage quickly became a single, floridly-written tirade against "expertise-deniers." For instance, the Atlantic headline on Kemp's decision to end some shutdowns was, "Georgia's Experiment in Human Sacrifice."
At the outset of the crisis, America's biggest internet platforms -- Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, and Reddit -- took an unprecedented step to combat "fraud and misinformation" by promising extensive cooperation in elevating "authoritative" news over less reputable sources.
Ace ends this post by sharing this from a commenter at his blog:
38 It's over.Read more here.
My leftwing neighbors had a huge party on Saturday night. No masks, no social distancing. At least 20 people at the party drinking, laughing and talking. And these are total Karen-esque asshole lefties. I could eavesdrop half the partygoers bashing Trump. AND YET they also were whining about the lockdown.
When even your own liberal base ignores the rules, there are no longer any rules. The lockdown is disintegrating.
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