QuoteThe "Biden vaccine" and miraculous "Biden recovery" will have ended the need for Trump-era lockdowns.

QuotePollsters, the vast majority of them progressives, have become political operatives. They see their task as ginning up political support for their candidates and demoralizing the opposition. Some are profiteering as internal pollsters for political campaigns and special interests.



Big liberal donors sent cash infusions totaling some $500 million into Senate races across the country to destroy Republican incumbents and take back the Senate. In the end, they might have failed to change many of the outcomes.



But did they really fail?



Democrats dispelled the fossilized notion that "dark money" is dangerous to politics. They now are the party of the ultra-rich, at war with the middle classes, whom they write off as clingers, deplorables, dregs and chumps.



In that context, the staggering amounts of money were a valuable marker. The liberal mega-rich are warning politicians that from now on, they will try to bury populist conservatives with so much oppositional cash that they would be wise to keep a low profile.



Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey seemed unapologetic that his company systematically was censoring and de-platforming conservative users. In a recent hearing he talked to members of the Senate as if he were a 19th-century railroad baron.



Google has been accused of massaging its search results to favor progressive agendas. During the final weeks of the campaign, social media platforms shut down accounts, and censored ads and messages, providing an enormously valuable gift to Joe Biden.



Silicon Valley, like the 19th-century oil, rail and sugar trusts, sees no reason to hide its partisanship and clout.



The media coverage of the election was unsavory. Journalists confirmed the findings of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center, which in an assessment of news coverage of Trump's first 100 days in office found that 80% of the coverage was negative.



As in the fashion of the Russian collusion hoax, the media for weeks on end revved up their engines for a seemingly certain Biden landslide victory. They rarely cross-examined Biden on the issues. And they certainly stayed clear of the Biden family influence-peddling scandal.



What do all these power players — big polling, big money, big tech and big media — have in common other than their partisanship and their powerful reach?



One, they stereotypically represent a virtue-signaling coastal elite that feels its own moral superiority allows it to destroy its own professional standards.



Two, they worry little about popular pushback because they assume that their money, loaded surveys and internet and media cartels create, rather than reflect, public opinion.



Three, while these elite cadres have enormous resources, they still are relatively unpopular. Despite being outspent 2-to-1, pronounced doomed by pollsters, often censored on social media, and demonized in print and on television, Trump was neck and neck with Biden — a fact that a few days ago was deemed impossible.



Expect our Big Brothers to instruct Americans that the COVID-19 pandemic is mutating into little more than a bad flu.



The "Biden vaccine" and miraculous "Biden recovery" will have ended the need for Trump-era lockdowns.



And the rioting, looting and arson?



They all miraculously will have disappeared because the disuniter and inciter Donald Trump now is gone.