The Liberals Who Can't Quit Lockdown"Progressive communities have been home to some of the fiercest battles over COVID-19 policies, and some liberal policy makers have left scientific evidence behind."
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Lurking among the jubilant Americans venturing back out to bars and planning their summer-wedding travel is a different group: liberals who aren't quite ready to let go of pandemic restrictions. For this subset, diligence against COVID-19 remains an expression of political identityeven when that means overestimating the disease's risks or setting limits far more strict than what public-health guidelines permit.
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For many progressives, extreme vigilance was in part about opposing Donald Trump. Some of this reaction was born of deeply felt frustration with how he handled the pandemic. It could also be knee-jerk. "If he said, 'Keep schools open,' then, well, we're going to do everything in our power to keep schools closed," Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco, told me. Gandhi describes herself as "left of left," but has alienated some of her ideological peers because she has advocated for policies such as reopening schools and establishing a clear timeline for the end of mask mandates. "We went the other way, in an extreme way, against Trump's politicization," Gandhi said.
Never mind that the self-admitted "knee-jerk reaction" to Trump's policies regarding the pandemic is actually proof of the left politicizing the pandemic, not Trump.
As I said yesterday, if a lefty publication like The Atlantic is even willing to admit this, imagine how bad it must really be.
