2020 was our annus horriiolis. The pandemic, the George Floyd riots. Creeping tyranny. The vast expansion of the censorship regime. Election rigging, at the very least through Zuckerbucks, and, of course, the massive increase in murders throughout America.
2020 sucked, big time. So bad that it gave us Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, which while not a fate worse than death, at least a fate that made us wish for the Sweet Meteor of Death.
SMOD did not arrive, and if we are smart we can learn many lessons about how not to deal with national crises.
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— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 17, 2024
One lesson that we should take to heart is that kneejerk reactions to national crises are almost always bound to make things worse, and by a lot. That certainly was true for the COVID lockdown of the economy. We are all familiar with…