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Public Resistance Might Stop the Next Lockdown

Lockdowns, mandates, and the erosion of personal freedoms have left us questioning the very essence of our society.
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Public Resistance Might Stop the Next Lockdown
A driver holds out a sign as hundreds of people gather to protest the lockdown, in Sacramento, Calif., on April 20, 2020. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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We grew up in a country in which we generally assumed there to be some feedback mechanism between public opinion and the behavior of governments. It was never perfect, but we all assumed it was there. If policies were bad, the reason was traced to public ignorance. If policies improved, it’s because public opinion shifted in a good direction.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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