America can’t move on from what happened during the mass government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
That was the message Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee subcomittee hearing titled “Liberty, Tyranny, and Accountability: COVID-19 and the Constitution.”
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the government response to the pandemic triggered “some of the most aggressive usurpations of freedom [that] modern Americans have experienced.”
The Texas Republican, who chairs the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, recounted a long list of repercussions from the official reaction to the pandemic, including trillions of dollars spent, lost jobs and businesses, lost confidence in public health officials, and general damage to society.
An “apology” from the institutions that failed American society isn’t good enough and won’t change the…
