Commentary  Last Friday, a reporter asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki to respond to the Johns Hopkins COVID study showing lockdowns provided no real benefit in terms of disease prevention. In response, Psaki dodged addressing the study directly, but then pivoted to claiming that the Biden administration had never pushed lockdowns. “We are not pushing lockdowns,” she insisted. “We’ve not been pro-lockdown—most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous president.” https://twitter.com/ElAmerican_/status/1489656459499507713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1489656459499507713%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmises.org%2Fwire%2Fwhite-house-now-says-it-never-really-wanted-lockdowns We have now reached the point in the media and political narrative where the party of lockdowns realizes lockdowns are increasingly unpopular and so now claims it never supported lockdowns at all. But how can Psaki get away with saying this? We all know that Joe Biden has always supported lockdowns. Well, that’s not quite it, and she’s not completely wrong. By the time Biden was actually sworn in as president, he had already stopped pushing for lockdowns as …