The guy who wrote this article over at the American Thinker is dreaming. His main thesis is that the spectacular failure of the technocratic approach to deal with the COVID pandemic (a disaster which technocracy also caused, BTW) has discredited technocracy and forced Blue States and the left to reconsider their tactics. As I mentioned previously, technocracy is absolutely central to the modern left’s worldview. The vision of the left has autocratic rule by benevolent social engineers and scientists replacing the ugliness and inefficiency of self-governance. While the rabble will still be allowed to make the truly important choices, like which gender they want to identify as, they will be relieved of the mundane decisions which currently burden them. The government will helpfully decide where they can live, what kind of car they can drive, what type of healthcare they get, and what types of food they are allowed to eat. There can never be sustainability as long as the average Joe is permitted to use all the resources currently available to him. And there can never be equity as long as the system allows common citizens to accrue as much wealth as their talents and ambition allow.
Far from discrediting technocracy to the left, the COVID pandemic will just be further proof to them that it didn’t go far enough. They believe that the technocrats just needed even more control and power to implement their solutions and everything would have turned out peachy. In fact, you can already see evidence of this in the total demonization of people who don’t want to take the vaccine or cover their kindergartner’s face with a piece of cloth. Just like the numerous failures of socialism never phased the socialists, the failure of the technocrats will only increase the fervor of their loyalists.