Most of it… 30% increase in opiod overdoses, two lost years of primary school education, thousands of small businesses closed forever, folks who had to watch their parents die on zoom, if at all… was no laughing matter.
But some of it amounts to the greatest self-own in American history and sets my Schadenfreude alarms ringing like St. Patrick’s bells at Christmastime.
For one thing, all of the hard work the Democrats have done to turn Florida and Texas blue has been completely washed away. A decade of effort, gone in an instant… poof!
Not only did Ron DeSantis’ performance cement him as a 2024 Presidential frontrunner, but both Texas and Florida are now stronger politically thanks to the huge influx of fed-up people from Blue States where the lockdowns were most vicious. Studies show that the majority of those new citizens plan to vote GOP in the future.
And the icing on the cake is that, while CA and NY are still deep blue and both come with massive Electoral Vote totals baked into the cake, both states lost so many residents that they’ve lost a Congressional seat. CA lost theirs to terrible policies, like the ones that encourage homeless people to shit all over the state… literally. And NY lost theirs to Governor Cuomo’s murderous COVID nursing home policy. But however it happened, CA and NY are now demonstrably less powerful on the National political stage than they were only a year ago.
And if you want one last spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, consider this… the return of LA County’s Mask Mandate means you’ve got to move the probability of Governor “Hairbeam” Newsom being recalled into the “Pick-Em” column.
Despite all the horrors of the last two years, that, at least, has got to make you smile.