In 30 years of writing, this might be the most important article I've written. https://t.co/z1oWEeZZRU — Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) September 28, 2021 The Purges Have Begun ⋆ Brownstone Institute Jeffrey A. Tucker How this began: The virus was here (the US) already for months from 2019 and life went on normally. Once the consciousness seeped in and the politicians panicked, we moved quickly from travel restrictions to lockdowns to mask mandates to domestic capacity restrictions to vaccine mandates. Somewhere along the way, we learned to classify people by profession, stigmatize the sick, then finally to demonize the noncompliant. It’s been 20 months of intensified controls, driven by political leaders from both parties, with precious little dissent from media organs. The pace has been furiously fast but somehow just slow enough that people and media personalities adjust to the new, the cycle proceeds, last week’s shock becomes this week’s normal, and then politicians