It gives more weight to Americans who opposed lockdowns too. This is the slippery slope argument coming to life, if you took lockdown to the extreme, and I think that was the biggest fear of those who opposed lockdowns.
> I think that was the biggest fear of those who opposed lockdowns.
Not for me, at least. I opposed lockdowns (and still do), even though I never thought it was realistic that we’d have a China-style one in NYC. I think what we did have was bad enough that it caused more unhappiness than it prevented.
There was a free and fair election followed by a basically peaceful transfer of power to the winning candidate. I get that the culture war stuff is a big deal in the US but it didn’t really seem very likely to me that the actual consequential things wouldn’t go as expected. But the thing you describe still doesn’t seem to me like it supports the slippery-slope argument so I don’t get it?
