Democrats and liberals increasingly seem to believe that it’s the federal government that needs to do almost everything. Sure, we take the point that it was federalism, states’ rights, that allowed racial segregation and Jim Crow, and thus, there’s rightly a certain suspicion of the idea. Yet in light of how the coronavirus crisis is playing out, it’s time for localism’s critics to reconsider.

As an example, Germany is well ahead of other nations on coronavirus testing. The reason?