It's a great rhetorical trick because the presumption keeps backers of freedom on the hot seat, permanently. 

You know the ropes. Trickle down is a myth, so why are we shilling for the rich? What's this fetish for big business? Why do we disregard the poor, the workers, the marginalized, the vulnerable? Why is our thinking so solipsistically exclusionary of people unlike ourselves?

If the experience of 2020 doesn't change this fake narrative, nothing will. The reality is that with few exceptions, the people who identify as "left of center" became the champions of lockdowns, as if this were a normal policy any civilized country would deploy in the event of a new pathogen.

I never would have believed it, and some of my friends on the left are shocked by it all. They are in the minority among their tribe. Still there it was, a clear ideological bias for lockdowns that strongly tilted left. 

Let us begin with the great slogan of Spring 2020: "Stay home and stay safe." Twitter even invented a little house icon that appeared when you typed it. It became a kind of mantra that the way to control this disease is not to leave your house. Have your meals delivered. Watch your church services on your computer. Meet with friends only through Zoom. Get out on the roads only if you have to, and do not travel no matter what. 

You know what's amazing about this? Only about one third of workers could comply with this dictate. In bigger cities, it was closer to 40% but much lower in more rural areas. The newspapers and television reporters, to say nothing of social media, were speaking to what's come to be known as the Zoom class, the people who work in digital media, finance, insurance, banking, and other such high-end areas.