On America’s coasts, the zealots are in full flow. “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill,” reflects Macbeth after killing Duncan and gaining the crown. And so, having chosen his path, he persists inexorably in his folly. Nothing can stop him — not failure or apparition or counsel or conscience. “I am in blood stepped in so far,” he admits, “that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
In California, Representative Ro Khanna is determined to tax the state’s billionaires, the consequences be damned. In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is fixated upon the establishment of government-run grocery stores, even as the absurdity of his plan becomes clearer by the week. Both men are impervious to reason. Objections are dismissed, criticisms are deliquesced, contemplation is a skill not yet learned.
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