The pandemic helped to hinder the Democratic Party [View all]

[RJ-MacReady]

This doesn't get discussed nearly enough. The response to the pandemic really hurt the Democratic Party. In the very beginning the restrictions were warranted they went on for far too long and some of them were ridiculous. Here in NJ for example after awhile one could go to a bar but you were only allowed to sit at a table, silly things like that. Another big issue was the prolonged school closures, it lost us the VA governor seat since VA had kept schools closed for over a year going against the science. A lot of kids lost out on education, life experience and social interaction when frankly they shouldn't have. I mean well into 2021 some states still had mandatory closures, capacity restrictions, and just other silly requirements all while many lost their lively hood and were not compensated for the forced closures. It really made our party look like the nanny party where we will tell you whats safe to do and have no empathy for your situation. Sure it was 5 years ago now but people remember. Then you mix that with all the far right disinformation and it just turns off everyday people.

We botched the pandemic response after the first couple months thats just fact. We need to learn from it.