A strong factor in U.S. elections is the public's growing awareness that the political elite are completely insulated from the effects of the policies they impose on the rest of us. It correctly makes voters wary of those policies.
Private jets and giant motorcades at global warming conferences, people who live behind armed guards crusading against gun rights, elite leftists trying to abolish the police in troubled neighborhoods, diehard enemies of school choice sending THEIR kids to private schools...
It's all hypocritical, sure, but the public reaction is growing into more than just annoyance at flagrant hypocrisy. It is sobering to realize that the people trying to control every aspect of your life have no intention whatsoever of sharing the burdens they impose on you.
The Wuhan coronavirus pandemic delivered some especially sharp lessons on that score. People aren't just rolling their eyes at lockdown-crazy coronavirus tyrants dancing the night away at maskless balls, or free passes for leftwing riots during the height of the pandemic.
Voters learned hard lessons over the past couple of years about how their Ruling Class writes different rules for itself and its favored constituents. It makes them appropriately worried about how bad things can get for the Little People while the elite live in sheltered luxury.
The elite are so damned consistent about insulating themselves, so unwilling to suffer even the smallest measure of the hardships and restrictions they inflict on the rest of us. Abolish the Police and the pandemic were a heck of a double swing with the clue bat.
People with lots of money and power are always going to live different lives. Socialists milk their power out of claiming they can erase that fundamental truth of human existence, while secretly planning to become the pampered elite whose privileges can never be challenged.
But when people realize nearly every aspect of the overwhelming, increasingly authoritarian government they live beneath has been rigged so that those who make the rules don't have to live by them or suffer the consequences, they grow understandably rebellious. /end
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