And speaking of pandemics, you can almost hear the gears inside the White House shifting as it moves to a storyline that denies it had anything to do with the increasingly unpopular misery of lockdowns and social controls.

Last week, Jen Psaki was confronted with the new Johns Hopkins University study that found “lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.” She even kept a straight face when she tried to blame lockdowns on Trump and the Republicans: