2020: The year America went crazy

By Michael Barone

Published December 31, 2020 4:21pm ET

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2020: The year America went crazy — Demonstrators vandalize a car as they protest the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, near the White House in Washington. | (Evan Vucci/AP)

Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so. Because of the responses of both elite officials and ordinary Americans to the COVID-19 epidemic starting last February and to the shocking Minneapolis police video released over the Memorial Day weekend.

The response to COVID-19 was unprecedented and disproportionate to the threat.

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