Victor Davis Hanson: American madness of 2020 – will hysteria continue in post-COVID US?

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The COVID-19 pandemic is ending with mass vaccinations. So is the national quarantine. The rioting, looting and arson that began in the summer of 2020 is finally sputtering out. 

The acrimony over the 2020 election is fading. Trump Derangement Syndrome became abstract when Donald Trump left office and was ostracized from social media.  

In other words, the American people are slowly regaining their senses after the epidemic of mass hysteria that gripped the nation last year.  

But many Americans wonder whether what Antifa, Black Lives Matter and the hard left wrought last year will last when the nation is no longer gripped by 2020 madness.  

Teachers and academics are notorious for furious opposition to administrative bloat. For the last 50 years, administrations have proliferated while the ratio of non-teachers to teachers has skyrocketed – much to the chagrin of teachers unions.  

From March 2020 to spring of 2021, the country went through a mass hysteria. Despite its ideological pretensions, the collective insanity was not unlike the Tulip mania in early 17th-century Holland or the June bug epidemic paranoia of 1962.  

But as Americans sober up, will they institutionalize or reject the frenzy remaining from the destructive stampede that took the country over the cliff during the most unhinged year in American history? 

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