I’m not saying that some of their criticism are not valid, but goddamn it’s shocking how quickly how many liberals have gone from advocating open borders, freedom of travel, espousing the benefits of seeing and experiencing other cultures to wanting permanently closed borders, onerous restrictions on travel, and in general wishing the world to be a smaller, more bounded place.

The pandemic induced this initially, of course, but it’s taken on its own pernicious life now and will extend far beyond any risk from our current scourge.

Of course, as people will do, they are already and will in the future say, “It’s always been this way; never been any different.” But it was very different little more than a year ago, and now we look unlikely to ever return to that.