In the summer of 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was merciless in her draconian measures to allegedly combat the COVID pandemic. Whitmer was very vocal and very defiant while wielding her emergency powers in legally dubious ways. Whitmer enthusiastically enforced some of the tightest lockdown orders in the country. She even denounced people who just wanted to ride their jet skis, outside, alone in the middle of a lake, for being selfish and heartlessly killing grandmothers. And her leftwing fans gleefully cheered her on at every turn. “Thank you Governor Whitmer, for saving lives!”
But the coronavirus wasn’t the only thing on Big Gretch’s mind in the summer of 2020. Whitmer had her eyes on the Vice Presidency. And she was gonna make her case. And what better way to showcase your political chops than to hold constant press conferences to tout your strong leadership during a crisis? Which she did, ad nauseum. But, there was one major problem for Gretchen’s VP dreams. The Democrats are the party of identity politics. To bamboozle voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan into slitting their own throats, the Democrats ran a crusty Old White Man who could talk in a folksy down-to-earth way that wouldn’t scare off the working class. But to their left wing base, Old White Men are evil incarnate. To counter the Old White Man at the top of the ticket, the Democrats needed a VP that would thrill the identity politics zealots. Alas, poor Gretchen could only check off the “female” box on the list. Unfortunately for her, there was another equally unimpressive candidate who could check off both the “female” and “person of color” boxes. So Gretchen lost out to Kamala Harris, an opportunistic phony who slept her way to the top and could never draw more support than a rounding error during the primaries. Even in her own home State. Yay, diversity!!!
With her 2020 VP dreams dashed, what is Gretchen Whitmer to do? Well for starters, she needs to campaign for re-election in Michigan after shitting all over the citizenry for a year. Gretchen will now have to face the voters she chastised and tortured in the summer of 2020 in the election coming up in the fall of 2022. How is she responding? By sticking to her guns and continuing her principled if-it-saves-just-one-life-it-is-worth-it leadership? Politics by damned?
Yeah, not so much. Far from vigorously defending the Biden jab decree, Gretchen is suddenly very concerned about the workers and the impact the mandate could have on their well being and the economy. What changed?
