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John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist highlights lessons that 2020 taught us about American elites.

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Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Mitch Kokai.

    John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist highlights lessons that 2020 taught us about American elites.

  • For as difficult as the past year has been, from politics to the pandemic, it has at least helped to illuminate and clarify certain things about the state of our country.
  • Above all, 2020 has illuminated and clarified the relationship between America's elites — in government, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, corporate America and the corporate press — and everyone else. In short, our elites believe, contra Thomas Jefferson, that most people were born with saddles on their backs while a favored few were born booted and spurred to ride them, legitimately.
  • The rigors and suffering the coronavirus pandemic brought on again demonstrated the perseverance, resilience, and generosity of the American people, but also exposed, sometimes in mind-boggling detail, the greed, hypocrisy, and indifference of our elites.
  • We like to think we live in a country where everyone, rich and poor alike, is equal before the law. But we know now, thanks to the exigencies and emergencies of 2020, that isn't true — or at least it's only true sometimes, when the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to weigh in and enforce equal treatment.
  • But left unchecked, as many of our leaders were over the past year, we all know what they will do. In no particular order, then, here are the five big things we learned about America and its elites in 2020.
  • This year we learned Democrats aren't the "party of science," and in fact don't care about science at all — especially if it gets in the way of their policy agenda or the exercise of emergency powers. ...
  • ... All over the country, elected officials — almost all of them Democrats — were spotted flouting their own pandemic rules and restrictions. ...
  • ... Especially in blue states and cities, elected officials opted for pandemic restrictions that disproportionately harmed small businesses and working families, while giving generous carve-outs and exemptions to special interests.

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