The percentage of Americans who believe our country is headed in the right direction has dropped off a cliff since this spring. Not coincidentally, that’s when a strange new virus from China began to spread among our population.
The rise of COVID-19 in the United States tracks almost precisely the decline of Donald Trump’s approval numbers and the political lesson from this is clear. The more damage the Wuhan coronavirus does to America, the harder it is for the President to get reelected.
That’s not speculation. It is the most certain fact in American politics. Every Democratic officeholder understands that. If the population remains terrified, Democrats will have more power in January.
So the Democratic Party has every incentive to keep Americans afraid and off balance. For the next 97 days, they plan to do that. That is their entire campaign strategy. It’s the only thing they’re running on.
Yesterday, the news site Breitbart posted a video of a group of physicians giving a press conference about medical advances in the fight against COVID-19. Some of the news that doctors delivered was hopeful because there is hopeful news to report.
Seventeen million people saw that video, the president retweeted it. This enraged Democrats.
Any scientific advancement that reduces the suffering of Americans in an election year is a threat to Joe Biden’s campaign. So they decided to pull that video off the internet.
Fifteen years ago, that would have been absurd. You couldn’t have done it. This was America. You weren’t allowed to ban a news story just because it might hurt your candidate’s poll numbers.
In any case, it was impossible. There were too many news outlets. No one could control them all. That has changed.
While the rest of us were sleeping, or in the case of so many of our senators, taking payoffs from Google, a tiny number of left-wing corporations took virtually complete control of all news and information in this country.
Now, if Democrats want to erase a politically inconvenient news story fewer than a hundred days before an election, they can do that, and they did do it. Big Tech censored science.
They pulled the video of doctors in lab coats talking about coronavirus research, and they hit that video from the public. It’s exactly what the Chinese government so often does, except when Silicon Valley erases your freedoms, they lecture you as they do it.
They’ve got all the ruthlessness of Chinese authoritarians, but with double the self-righteousness. It’s the American version.
