In the second Trump administration, it feels as though news moves at 1,000 miles per hour, leaving us with constant whiplash. Even so, we have a duty to remember how bad things were under President Joe Biden, because the institutional factors that enabled his presidency—and the coverup of his health problems—have yet to be dismantled.
Human beings are fickle, and our memories often end up getting twisted by present concerns. When the Israelites were hungry in the wilderness, God had to remind them that he brought them up out of slavery in Egypt, because their hungry stomachs led them to say they had it better under the whips of their masters (Exodus 16:1-8).
Similarly, we are often tempted to leave injustices in the past, because it’s easier to move on. Thus, after the COVID-19 pandemic, some voices I respect called for a “pandemic amnesty.”
Yet COVID exposed…
