Americans Need to Face Down a Politicized Panic

A demonstrator wears a facemask referring to the governor of California in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2020. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

In retrospect, we can date the moment America began to slip her moorings as a federal republic dedicated to individual and national sovereignty and descend into arbitrary, politically correct coercion—for our “own good.”