US Midterms 2022: Democrats lost voter support as they closed schools and businesses during Covid

In none of the polls will you find the ‘Covid response’ as one of the top concerns of voters.

Legitimate fears about the economy, inflation, crime and education are the topics making all the headlines.

But think for a second: the COVID pandemic hangs over everything like a hangover.

Did your company go under?

Have you had trouble buying baby food?

Is your neighborhood less safe?

Has your child lost a year of learning?

Pandemic policies played a role in all of these concerns.

There are four states today electing governors who best illustrate the tough political battle over covid policies.

And in a stunning rebuke of draconian, business-crushing, school-closing lockdowns, the leaders who reopen first sail to victory, while the panicked, power-hungry politicians, who drank the deepest from the cup of COVID madness, hold their collective breath this Election Day .

In the free states of Georgia and Florida Govs. Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis, who both won squeakers four years ago, are up by as much as double digits.

In Michigan and New York, Govs. Once considered untouchable, Gretchen Whitmer and Kathy Hochul are now fighting for their political lives.

And let’s not forget about Stacey Abrams, the perennial gubernatorial candidate who still thinks she won the 2018 Georgia race. Her Covid hysteria helped destroy her chances for 2022.

Early in the pandemic, New York and Michigan state infamously forced elderly Covid patients from hospitals back into nursing homes with deadly consequences. And that was just the beginning of the parade of policy terrors.

Hochul’s disgraced predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, was a hero of the left and the media — he even nauseously won an Emmy for hosting self-righteous daily COVID briefings.

That morbid obsession came to an abrupt end after he was exposed as a sexual harasser and con artist, whose government eerily tried to hide the deadly impact of his nursing home policies.

And who can forget the cavalcade of erratic Covid restrictions, changing every day for more than a year in places like New York City and Detroit.

Small businesses that would not and could not comply were simply destroyed; some estimates say as many as a third of them all in Gotham.

Police raided Mac’s Public House in Staten Island because the pub refused to enforce mask mandates. They were fined and harassed. Now they seem prescient.

Hochul could have taken a new path.

But she didn’t.

She clung like a determined despot to the emergency powers granted to her under the state’s COVID disaster declaration, which she renewed month after month, until she finally realized in September that New Yorkers had left.

Now the party that made this possible gets what it deserves.

And who can forget the hypocrisy?

Think of the smiling faces of Hochul and Abrams in photographs of masked schoolchildren, mocking not only the children and their parents, but common sense itself.

The rules imposed on all little people did not apply to the regulators.

Whitmer discouraged out-of-state travel for Michiganders, but they found a jet headed to Florida for some much-needed R&R.

So, does Whitmer regret crushing her state with lockdowns?

A local TV news channel tried to ask her that this week. And wouldn’t you know that the governor suddenly had “audio problems” and couldn’t answer the question.

Last but not least, we are only now learning about the damage, yes damage, done to children in closed states who were denied the basic right to go to school.

Florida was the first state to reopen schools for face-to-face learning 5 days a week. Texas was close behind.

They opened businesses, opened churches, opened bars and restaurants. She banned the masks and vaccines mandates. And for that they were pilloried.

The Atlantic Magazine blared a bogus headline accusing Kemp of “human sacrifice” in Georgia. DeSantis was cast by the media as something between a murderer and a war criminal.

It was a court press with slander and false accusations from our dear old media, but it didn’t work.

Republican governors listened to their constituents, not pundits like Fauci and the clown car at the CDC. Now those voters reward them.

Kemp, DeSantis and Texas Governor Gregg Abbott dominate their re-election campaigns.

But if you think the Democrats have learned their lesson on the eve of the election, think again.

Abrams was on television Sunday accusing Kemp of “prematurely” reopening his state.

How long would she have kept us in our cellars? Eternally?

If you woke up on Election Day while living in Florida or Georgia, you live in a state that has had a strong economic upswing, where people are moving to rather than fleeing.

Between the start of the pandemic in early 2020 and the summer of 2022, the red states had added 341,000 jobs, while the blue states still had a job shortfall of 1.3 million.

Need I say more?

If, on the other hand, you woke up in New York or Michigan, the exact opposite is true.

If you’re still not convinced, consider this: One of the few safe sitting Democratic governors, Colorado’s Jared Polis, was about the only leader with a D after his name to show restraint and not just shut everything down.

“The emergency is over,” he declared in December 2021. Meanwhile, toddlers in New York City were still wearing masks.

Polis is currently on the 2024 presidential shortlist.

As people head to the polls, it is clear that anti-lockdown governors are being rewarded.

The elections in this quartet of states send an important message. Even if Hochul and Whitmer kept up their races, they’d be cakewalks, not public reprimands.

When all is said and done, the lockdowns may be lost.