March 17, 2020
The President’s Job is to Protect Us
By Christopher Chantrill
One of my Maxims is that “the only warrant for government power is existential peril.†The problem is that most of the time there isn’t any existential peril, and so, if you are interested in power, you have to make it up.
Thus, the Commies are coming, the Nazis are coming, the world is going to end -- because pollution or climate or plastic -- unless we act now.
But occasionally a real existential peril comes along, like right now with the Wuhan Flu -- yeah, call me a racist, why dontcha -- and so the president gets up and acts like the protector of his people and declares a state of emergency.
But some idiots are arguing about whether he acted too soon or too late.
Our Democratic operatives with bylines decided it was racist to suspend air travel from China until they decided that using the wrong name for the virus was xenophobic. The technocratic cognoscenti in Europe in their wisdom reckoned that the best thing was to do nothing and let the epidemic take its course until it died out once the European population acquired “herd immunity.â€
But Boris Johnson in the UK suddenly did what the Brits call a “U-turn†on this. That’s because the job of the British prime minister is to protect the Brits from existential threats, human or viral.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/the_presidents_job_is_to_protect_us.html
