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AP Photo/Evan Vucci Last week, the federal government at the command of Joe Biden initiated the worst abuse of power from the American executive in modern history. In an angry, incoherent speech, the president pledged to use OSHA to force a vaccine mandate on private, American businesses .
The enforcement mechanism? $14,000 fines per instance, per week, if an employee either isn’t vaccinated or doesn’t test negative. That’s enough to effectively bankrupt most mid-sized businesses, if they are out of compliance with even a few workers.
Given that extensive overreach, many on the right immediately spoke out. After all, this is a crossroads moment regarding whether bureaucracies will simply be allowed unlimited power or if there are some limiting principles still in place. Perhaps this would even be a situation where the principles first, norms worshiping Never Trump contingent might speak out with righteous indignation against Joe Biden’s dictatorial overreach?
Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Instead, we are getting meek equivocations like this. Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Is Wrong, but Wouldn’t Have Happened If More Got Vaxxed | by @JonahDispatch https://t.co/cewkxu6x1S — National Review (@NRO) September 11, 2021 The article is written as a response to Charles Cook’s prior objection to a tweet by Goldberg in which the latter asserted that Biden’s vaccine mandate wouldn’t be necessary if everyone would just get vaccinated. That came at the tail end of a mild, half-defense of the legality of Biden’s order.
Here’s a taste of Goldberg’s rebuttal, which is preceded by a claim that he objects to Biden’s mandate — before he launches into a near full-throated defense of it, shifting blame to those having to bear the federal overreach of power. It seems both a paltry and trivial sacrifice to get vaccinated and to encourage others to do so, and a virtuous and patriotic thing to do as well. Instead, irresponsible actors are telling people the very opposite of that — that it is cowardly and unpatriotic to endure this potentially life-saving minor inconvenience. People are wearing their personal irresponsibility like a badge of honor. This project is unwise, immoral, unpatriotic, and unvirtuous. It […]
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