Anybody advocating for large public gatherings at this point is a dumb-dumb, whether they’re on the left or the right.
With how politicized the response to coronavirus has become, I have to wonder how Americans would behave if 9/11 happened today and not two decades ago.
I have a sickening feeling that we wouldn’t unite the same way we did back then. With Trump so opposed to foreign military intervention, I also have to wonder whether we would have just taken it lying down and not retaliated.
The liberals would probably have rushed to condone the attack as a justifiable reaction to colonialism, while many on the right would probably also rejoice at East Coast elite globalists “getting what they deserved.”
I can’t say what caused this change in our national unity over the past two decades — most likely, it was an accumulation of factors.