A Deadly if Dutiful Deference
The American public has been dutiful to the point of self-harm in heeding the injunctions of the people who manage their lives and livelihoods.
By Roger Kimball • April 18, 2020
On March 14, when the current coronavirus hysteria was beginning to get going in earnest, I said “one of the silver linings†of this panic would be that “the people who will be blamed when it is over—which it will be, and soon—are the people who stoked the insanity.â€
That was a little over a month ago and guess what? “Soon†is “now.â€
I am not thinking primarily about the burgeoning protests against the draconian and largely pointless “lockdowns†and interdictions ordered by power-hungry governors and other high-handed politicians. Those have been gratifying, and I suspect that the protests against really egregious actors, like Gretchen “Cruella de Vil†Whitmer, the wretched governor of Michigan, at least for now, will only gather momentum in the coming weeks.
But I am hoping that the deeper and longer-lasting response will be a quiet revolution in sentiment against the people who abetted this wealth-destroying panic: against the media, first of all, but also the obscure bureaucratic elite that stoked the fear and helped spread the hysteria.
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