Anger Growing Along with List of Democratic COVID Hypocrites
Denver’s Democratic mayor flies to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with his family — after urging others to stay home. He later says he was thinking with “my heart and not my head.”
A Democratic Pennsylvania mayor bans indoor dining, then eats at a restaurant in Maryland.
The Democratic governor of Rhode Island is photographed at an indoor wine event.
The Democratic mayor of Austin, Texas, jets off to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where he tells his constituents in a Facebook message that “this is not the time to relax.”
California’s Democratic governor dines at a swanky French restaurant with lobbyists, none wearing masks, a day after San Francisco’s Democratic mayor was there for a birthday party. Both had recently imposed tough rules on restaurants.
To the public’s chagrin, some of America’s leaders have been caught preaching one thing on the coronavirus pandemic and practicing another.
Amid their own tight lockdown measures, such actions only reinforce the idea “that some people just don’t have to follow the rules while the rest of us do,” Rita Kirk, a professor of communications at Southern Methodist University, said.
To Erica Bohn, 49, who hasn’t hugged her adult children since March, the pandemic hypocrisy feels like a slap in the face.
“The disconnect is really confusing to me. These are intelligent, well-educated, well-informed people that should know better,” Bohn, a financial consultant from Champaign, Illinois, said.
“It’s no wonder people are confused or don’t believe what politicians say.”
Those ordering the harshest restrictions and issuing the most dire warnings are chief among the “do as I say, not as I do” crowd.
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo planned to host an extended family Thanksgiving until public backlash made him think twice.
The California Assembly moved its legislative work to an NBA arena to ensure social distancing, but then a group of lawmakers headed to a restaurant together.
The backlash is not uniquely American, either.
People were outraged when the chief architect of England’s lockdown drove from London to his father’s seaside home after he and his wife were suspected to have the virus, violating the country’s travel rules.
He’s since lost his job and is now being investigated by police.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has fielded weeks of questions about his indoor dining misstep. The Democrat has called it a lapse in judgment but has ignored questions about whether Californians can still trust him.
A growing effort to gather enough signatures for a recall vote shows that many have had enough.
For Bohn, it seems like politicians have forgotten who pays their salary — and who they’re supposed to serve.
“The lack of self-awareness in American politics is just something else,” she says. “They lose all sense of what it is to serve a constituency.”
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