Over a year ago I began talking up the idea that lockdowns would yield shortages and poverty. The government cannot just “write checks” and expect “the economy” to hum along nicely. Wealth depends on goods and services, not money. Force people not to work, and less will get done.

When I wrote and spoke these thoughts — before Elon Musk encapsulated the idea more pithily — a few people mocked me and I am sure many rolled their eyes. They had the illusion of free fall: everything seems fine until you hit the pavement.

Now that supply chains are coming up short in sector after sector and misery and conflict come out in the open, Democrats are doubling down and firing people en masse for not accepting the mandated leaky vaccines that cannot induce herd immunity: herd vaccination will not produce the effects promised, but progressives have the faith of true believers in their failed god.

Things will only get worse until folks like Inslee, Whitmer and Biden are removed from office. Their unconstitutional affronts can only be met with mass resistance and outright pressure, or everything goes to tyranny — and at some point there will be probably be fighting in the streets.

As I expected in 2015 when Democrats backed Antifa and BAMN in open violence.

Once a political movement embraces open initiatory street violence, there is no easy way to prevent the slide to tyrannical barbarism. Democrats gave up reason long ago, and are now openly pushing anti-democratic totalitarian measures such as concentration camps.

They must repent, but seem unlikely to do so. Proud fools, convinced of their moral purity, they have embraced evil. Every Democratic voter who does not loudly oppose current insanity is no better (and perhaps worse) than the worst they have accused others.

They are the fascists they warned us about.

twv