Did Lockdowns Set a Global Revolt in Motion?

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My first article on the coming backlashโ€”admittedly wildly optimisticโ€”went to print April 24, 2020. After 6 weeks of lockdown, I confidently predicted a political revolt, a movement against masks, a population-wide revulsion against the elites, a demand to reject โ€œsocial distancingโ€ and streaming-only life, plus widespread disgust at everything and everyone involved.

I was off by four years. I wrongly assumed back then that society was still functioning and that our elites would be responsive to the obvious flop of the whole lockdown scheme. I assumed that people were smarter than they proved to be. I also did not anticipate just how devastating the effects of lockdown would be: in terms of learning loss, economic chaos, cultural shock, and the population-wide demoralization and loss of trust.

The forces that set in motion those grim days were far more deep than I knew at the time. They involved a willing complicity from tech, media, pharma, and the administrative state at all levels of society.

There is every evidence that it was planned to be exactly what it became; not just a foolish deployment of public health powers but a โ€œgreat resetโ€ of our lives. The newfound powers of the ruling class were not given up so easily, and it took far longer for people to shake off the trauma than I had anticipated.

Is that backlash finally here? If so, itโ€™s about time.

New literature is emerging to document it all.

The new book โ€œWhite Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracyโ€ย is a viciously partisan, histrionic, and gravely inaccurate account that gets nearly everything wrong but one: vast swaths of the public are fed up, not with democracy but its opposite of ruling class hegemony. The revolt is not racial and not geographically determined. Itโ€™s not even about left and right, categories that are mostly a distraction. itโ€™s class-based in large part but more precisely about the rulers vs. the ruled.

With more precision, new voices are emerging among people who detect a โ€œvibe changeโ€ in the population. One is Elizabeth Nicksonโ€™s article โ€œStrongholds Falling; Populists Seize the Culture.โ€ She argues, quoting Bret Weinstein, that โ€œThe lessons of [C]ovid are profound. The most important lesson of Covid is that without knowing the game, we outfoxed them and their narrative collapsed …. The revolution is happening all over the socials, especially in videos. And the disgust is palpable.โ€

Byย Jeffrey A. Tucker

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