Stacey Abrams, the sore loser of the Georgia gubernatorial election, wrote an essay for the Council on Foreign Relations journal Foreign Affairs. It covered all the elitist tropes—exploiting the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic for partisan political gain. Abrams talks about restoring democracy, but the real aim is to restore the power of Technocratic experts. It would be comical if not deadly serious to the future of the Republic.
“Xenophobia and populism have been on the rise, and faith in democratic ideals has declined,” she writes. One should eschew xenophobia, properly defined, but what is so wrong with populism?