Op-Ed: Would the guy who spelled out our inalienable rights wear a mask? You bet. (via latimesopinion)
Would Thomas Jefferson wear a mask? On the face of it, this is a ludicrous question, since Jefferson is busy being dead, time machines are not yet available, and dragging Jefferson’s legacy into our current encounter with the coronavirus in Donald Trump’s America feels both irrelevant and irreverent.
We shall see. Unlike climate change, which is a long-range existential threat, the pandemic is raging now. Its impact in terms of cases and casualties requires no crystal ball. Trump has made a bet that will be proven right or wrong before the November elections. If the former, all the scientific experts will be exposed as weak-kneed charlatans, and Trump will be able to chastise them in his second inaugural in January.
But when asked to describe his deepest political conviction, and he was often asked to do just that, the answer was always the same. It was “self-government.” He harbored a profound faith in human nature, believing that ordinary citizens would freely choose to internalize their obligations to others. No outside form of government was necessary because we all carried inside ourselves a built-in governing principle.
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