Wherever you stand on the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is hard not to accept that it has created a serious crisis of legitimacy for the liberal social and political order…
…The consequence was a set of state-backed interventions that were neither rational nor legal but harked back to an earlier time of traditional or charismatic authority. Should we now be surprised, then, to see the liberal order in crisis as political leaders arrogate to themselves the traditional privileges of monarchs or the charisma of a television host as a foundation for their policies, and demands for compliance?
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