A mystery

At the end of the summer and what is conventionally considered the beginning of the election campaign, it seemed to me that there was one great mystery about the state of the country. Of course, it doesn’t exist, or exist as mystery, for the “woke” Left or the infallible moralists of the so-called “cancel culture.” There can be no mystery for them while their ideology assures them that there cannot be anything they don’t already know—up to and including what’s going to happen next week, next month, or next year in the “history” they claim to be on the right side of. The “progressive” ideology has all the answers. No, the great mystery is why so many people in the rest of the country—in particular liberal-minded non-ideologues and otherwise non- or barely political types who have spent the last four years complaining about the putative...