This is not easy to write and I know it will advance an opinion that does not find favor in all quarters of the center-right we represent here on Ricochet, but I am more and more convinced that the path we are now on, even considering the perhaps far-too-late course corrections announced in the past few days, may go down in history as the greatest single error of judgment in our history.

I started coming to this conviction some time ago, as shown by my post of a little over two weeks ago, entitled “This Is Tearing My Heart Out!”: Rush’s Lament- and Mine”, in which I reviewed studies and analyses decrying the fact that the decisions of the President and his task force were being made almost wholly on the basis of scientific data, with little consideration being given to the horrendous impact this is having on the economy and the workers who make it — or, dare I put it more accurately, made it — the greatest economy the world has ever seen.