On COVID, Schools, and the Death of the Liberal Expert Class

The failure of lockdowns and vaccines have awoke folks to the dangers of bureaucratic overreach, expert overconfidence, and authoritarianism in the name of safety. They took our rights. The media and public health authorities want you to forget that the federal government tried to take the right to work from tens of millions of unvaccinated people.

April 1, 2023 | Source: Unreported Truths | by Alex Berenson

The New Yorker just ran its second big negative piece on Ron DeSantis in a week, proof of how much the woke media fears the governor of Florida. (Yes, I read the New Yorker so you don’t have to.)

The article is nominally about DeSantis’s support for age-appropriate teaching of gender and sexuality in public schools. Or, as the Democrats like to call it, “Don’t Say Gay.” The wokesters have not figured out that label is not quite the devastating comeback they think.

Plenty of parents of six-year-olds are fine with not having teachers say “gay” – they think that even if they support same-sex marriage (as I do), they and not outsiders should decide what their first- or second-graders hear about sex and family structures. Then again, these are the people who thought “defund the police” was an electoral winner, so their political instincts may not be the best.