The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
Recent public-opinion surveys paint a grim picture of an America that’s losing confidence in the very institutions and ideas that undergird the American Experiment—that enduring effort to build a more perfect union of free people.
Here’s an oddity: Polls paint a grim picture for both of the prohibitive favorites in next year’s election: 70 percent of Americans don’t want President Joe Biden to seek reelection. And an identical 70 percent of Americans don’t want former President Donald Trump to run again. Perhaps related: 68 percent of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve a second term, and 57 percent say Trump is too old.
A year into Vladimir Putin’s second war on Ukraine, one of G.K. Chesterton’s most powerful and profound observations keeps coming to mind. “The true soldier,” Chesterton explained, “fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”