When Donald Trump initially sailed into the Oval Office, his opponents shrieked that his harsh speech was dividing the country. His supporters pointed out that Trump wasn’t so much creating section as he was revealing groups that had been growing in America for a long time.  ,
The response to the book Wuhan rhinovirus did the country a comparable service, by revealing a fresh wrong line: two sets of rules, which were applied separately to Americans depending on their membership in particular political cliques. For the ordinary American who assumed his social leaders also shared the belief that all men are created equal, it was a violent deception.
Coronavirus lockdowns alerted American to an unpleasant fact: the organizations to which they’d entrusted their rights were no more reliable. If the 2024 vote is any indicator, they got the message.
In the Covid days, hardworking people were deemed “nonessential” and lost their jobs while watching Tony Fauci’s net worth walk. They were banished from temple while thousands gathered in the street to devotion George Floyd. They watched their children fall behind in school while Nancy Pelosi and Lori Lightfoot broke the rules to getting their broken ends trimmed. Their dying loved ones left this world only, while Obama danced with Hollywood superstars at his 60th birthday knock. To add more attack, those loved ones were denied right funerals, while 10, 000 people gathered to memorialize a drug-addicted crime in a golden urn on television. Just some Americans were authorized to write their thoughts website, while others were punished and censored.
The delusion that we were” all in this together” didn’t survive for long. A certain set of laws applied to the BLM activists, the Democrat officials, and the Hollywood leaders, and another set of rules applied to everyone else. Americans started to realize they were being had.
When Covid vaccine mandates rolled out, the duality was yet clearer. For the vaccinated course, there were jobs, service university appointments, school acceptances, and social popularity. For the unvaccinated, there was talk of denying them access to airplanes, franchises, and stores, or perhaps putting them into tents.
When the double regular was exposed, it became apparent everywhere. The Bidens got away with selling White House exposure because of their previous name, while Trump was persistently prosecuted for made-up acts because of his. Quiet pro-life protesters were dragged to prison while contraception followers got away with war pregnancy centers. Ukrainian oligarchs got billions while we watched the purchasing power of each paycheck stretch. Our state seemed more interested in caring for individuals of various nations who broke our regulations than in looking after its own. Our senator was more interested in apologizing for using the word “illegal” to identify Laken Riley’s criminal than he was in apologizing to Riley’s home for inviting her predator across the border. Our speech was muzzled as a” threat to democracy” while partisans gleefully dismantled our republic.
Nearly 8 in 10 Americans told Trafalgar Group pollsters in 2022 that they felt they were living under a two-tiered justice system.
If Covid brought the double standard into focus, the racial turmoil of 2020 confirmed leftists ‘ belief that it was a good thing. Americans were given different rules to live by, depending on the color of their skin. White Americans were expected to engage in public spectacles of guilt and self-hatred for their own inherent racism, examine their white fragility, pay “reparations” to their black friends, and accept fault for all of society’s ills. Black Americans were encouraged to celebrate their “black pride” and demand preferential treatment. The Smithsonian released an infographic saying traits like being “polite” or on time were hallmarks of “whiteness”, with the overly racist implication that black Americans should not be expected to do either. Hiring quotas were installed to reflect the principle that black and white people should be treated differently.
The ideology represented by the shorthand” DEI” turned this discrimination into a$ 9 billion industry. DEI didn’t just institutionalize racial discrimination, it also implemented discrimination based on sexual preferences. While white guys got blamed for society’s faults, white guys who dressed up as women got special victim status and Bud Light brand deals!
Americans who still believed God created each man and woman with equally valuable souls were offended at the creation of artificial hierarchies that turned true equality on its head, doling out special privileges based on a person’s race, politics, or sexuality. As institutions — from media to academia to government — led the way in imposing those hierarchies, Americans stopped trusting them.
Like Trump’s uncovering of deep-rooted political divisions in 2016, that loss of trust was as necessary as it was uncomfortable. It almost certainly played a role in Gen Z’s rightward swing. It was a huge step in shrinking the power of the leftist-dominated corporate press, which beclowned itself by uncritically repeating the government’s talking points about masks, vaccines, lockdowns, and Covid’s origins. And it laid the foundations for Americans, after four years of the Biden regime, to embrace Trump’s swamp-draining attitude more enthusiastically than ever.
The years of Covid paranoia and power-grabbing were an experiment in trusting The System, and whether Americans accepted or rejected it revealed as much about them as the 2016 election did. But it also revealed a lot about The System — and all the institutions of power that comprise it — to Americans.
They realized the system wasn’t going to save them. They were going to have to do it themselves.
Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women’s Forum. She received her B. A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.
