Senator Ossoff’s Empty Populism

The last few weeks have given us headlines many Americans never imagined they’d see. “Trump Embraces State Capitalism.” “Trump Is Making Socialism Great Again.” “Is MAGA going Marxist and Maoist?” For their part, various progressives are getting in on the action. An Obama administration official said, “Trump’s strong-arming Intel for gov’t equity is something Mao and Stalin would be proud of.” California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press team mocked Trump on X, sharing an AI image of Trump with the Soviet hammer and sickle behind him. The New Republic’s Timothy Noah pivoted in the other direction…

The public was also aggressively lied to about the danger of the virus-overwhelmingly, the only vulnerable parts of the population were the elderly, the obese, and the diabetic. We were lied to about the efficacy of “social distancing”-it was a made-up nostrum-and cloth masks.