![]() ![]() Which is to say she’s part of a larger trend of conservative Hispanics discovering that they want to vote for the more conservative party - that sounds banal, but the pandemic was such a shocking and disruptive moment that it caused people to rethink a lot of things.Ĭonversely, for many others, the definitive moments of pandemic policy were things like Donald Trump promising the virus would vanish by spring, the infamous “cubic model” chart, the boast that he’d cured the virus with Regeneron, the endless rounds of hype about hydroxychloroquine, and various other forms of nonsense peddled by the political right.Īnd even today, almost nothing gets people fighting in the Slow Boring comments like disputes over what really happened during the pandemic - not so much about whether lockdown forever would have been a good idea (nobody thinks that) or whether Trump was correct to promise that the virus would simply vanish without harming anyone (he clearly wasn’t), but about the actual balance of wrongness. She’s Catholic who favors legal restrictions on abortion, and a small business owner who’s skeptical of minimum wage increases. ![]() ![]() And having become unmoored from conventional Mexican-American Democratic Party loyalty, she discovered that there was a lot to like about GOP politics. I spoke last year to a taqueria owner in Texas who told me she’d been a Democrat all her life but voted for Trump in 2020 because he and Greg Abbott were trying to keep her business open while Democrats wanted to shut it down. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic left a lot of obvious scars on the country - death, Long Covid cases, lost jobs, shuttered businesses, and the loss of valuable learning time in school.īut I think it’s also left significant psychic and political scars. ![]()
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