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Remember, this is a country with the news-cycle attention span of a sugar-high child: Twitter can deplatform a president and Jeff Bezos can murder the American Dream on live TV, and 48 hours later it’s not even a story; yet the Capitol riot lives on. The level of obsession devoted to this one event is astounding. So what else?

https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/17...ats-the-point/

So, what are the traditional jobs of government? Are they to destroy Donald J. Trump or to stop all disease or end all discrimination?

Not so much; the actual reasons government exists are a lot more modest. Government exists to defend our borders and our nation from dangerous, predatory people who might harm us. Government exists to establish fair laws, and enforce them. It exists to create the infrastructure we all benefit from, but which no single one of us has enough resources to build. In short, governments exist to do things that allow their citizens to flourish.

We hear that the Capitol riot was an assault on our democracy, but what puts our democracy in more danger? Some unarmed 50-year-old men cavorting in the Rotunda, or a government that sits paralyzed while private equity loots small towns, tech behemoths monopolize free speech, and H.R. departments force you to pledge allegiance to a rainbow flag?

Good government is hard. It’s often boring and unrewarding. Some of the most important policies we can enact won’t make for a good cable news hit — but we need them.