When the first of the COVID-19 shutdown-related protests broke out in Michigan, Virginia, and Minnesota last month, any other president would have urged Americans to comply with the stay-at-home orders instituted by states to flatten the coronavirus curve. But as we’ve all come to learn, President Donald Trump doesn’t merit such a reasonable expectation. Sure enough, it didn’t take him long to take to Twitter and incite insurrection against three duly elected Democratic governors, encouraging Americans to “liberate” their states.
We are doing the worst that can be done. To think we will come out with less death than otherwise will prove folly.