Evaluating Governor Whitmer During Covid-19. Can Americans Have a Rational Conversation About this Topic? Or Will We Just Cancel Each Other Out?

<p>The Best Paragraph I've Read:</p> <p><br></p> <p>"Whitmer was prepared to govern her state, but the pandemic required something of a different order: minute-by-minute, seat-of-the-pants, lives-in-the-balance decision-making for which there was no model or precedent. She soon realized that the only people who could relate to what she was going through were her fellow governors. In March, she created a group text chain with a few of them. They were all Democrats, but with different political profiles and instincts. As they started comparing notes, Whitmer was simultaneously dismayed and relieved to see that their notes were the same: Here they all were, in charge of getting millions of people through this crisis without much more information than your average, cable-TV-watching citizen."</p> <p><br></p> <p>This paragraph comes from a New York Times article by Jonathan Mahler. &nbsp;The article is titled: "A Governor on Her Own, With Everything at Stake."</p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/magazine/gretchen-whitmer-coronavirus-michigan.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/magazine/gretchen-whitmer-coronavirus-michigan.html</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Zac and Don discuss the job that Governor Whitmer has done leading Michigan through the Covid-19 Crisis. &nbsp;They also talk about whether Americans can be rational when talking about and evaluating the job performance of their political leaders. &nbsp;They discuss the topic of Cancel Culture.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Another Best Paragraph I've Read:</p> <p><br></p> <p>"The people of “Today’s cancel culture — erasing history, ending careers — is inflicted by people experiencing an orgy of positive feelings about themselves as they negate others.</p> <p>Instead of elevating, their education produces only expensively schooled versions of what José Ortega&nbsp; called the “mass man.”</p> <p>In 1932’s “The Revolt of the Masses,” the Spanish philosopher said this creature does not “<em>appeal from his own to any authority outside him</em>. He is satisfied with