Originally Posted by
steelreserve
If there wasn't an election, the Democrats never would have ever in a million years attempted lockdowns, mask mandates, or any of the other illegal things that they did. Governors, mayors, and health officials would have faced criminal charges and prison time if they'd done them. Likely the same for those public officials who aided and abetted rioters, looters, and arsonists.
But the whole idea was that because it was an election year, the instant the federal government did anything to prevent these activities, the Democrats were waiting to pounce on it like a pack of hyenas, and denounce it as heavy-handed authoritarianism, and scream "Dictator! Dictator! See? Dictator!" like they had been doing for years. Or, the alternative was to let them get away with murder, literally and figuratively. The Democrats go all-in on it, and if they manage to grab power, they get off scot-free.
That's the worst part. None of it was necessary. At BEST - if you give these people the benefit of the doubt - it was a massive, unprecedented overreaction, brought about by an overlawyered and PR-obsessed system that ran away from itself and snowballed out of control. The worse, and more likely case is that they knew it was unnecessary and did it anyway, and put you and everyone else through that completely for selfish reasons.