I know this article meant to enrage people, but I will bite:

> For Americans who are fully vaccinated, organized political resistance to vaccination mandates is infuriating

Sigh... Because you aren't sufficiently qualified to give necessary opposition. Even good ideas need those, mandatory vaccination probably isn't among those good ideas though. Even doctors have mentioned that vaccination is political now, especially due to media writers. Some need the vaccine for a political victory, not for health reasons...

> Then we’d have a much bigger problem to solve.

Yes, Covid is a serious disease, but there are other important issues.

> In fact, our research shows that we do.

My wishing rod says the same.

> In short, we are witnessing a rebellion against the very idea of binding, impersonal legal rules and procedures.

That isn't too far off actually but they aren't impersonal at all.

> This rejection of bureaucratic expertise, procedures and science may seem strange

Your bureaucracies are intelligence agencies which aren't evil incarnate but certainly have special ambitions. You believe them without any check. In my country we made fun of people suspecting Russians behind everything. Not funny anymore, you are three decades late and far too serious about it.

Bad writers used issues like sexual and racial violence as a political cudgel against a political opposition. That is what editors of many outlets now stand for. You either believe your own framing or you don't. Both options don't speak highly of you and cannot be excused by mad kings of the past either. To propose that nobody listens to bureaucracies whose rights have been extended by patriot act after patriot act is a ridiculous analysis itself.

> Attacks such as those of former President Donald Trump on the “deep state” turned out to be attempts to demolish the bureaucratic state itself.

So the deep state does exist?

> struggle against any effort whatsoever to impose binding, impersonal rules to defend the public good.

Good. Civil liberties were reduced the last 2 decades because some people were lead by fear. But there is also no political capital to change course. I don't know how the author reaches these delusional conclusions. Overslept the last 20 years? Busy killing brain cells with alcohol? Please tell us your secret...

> Accelerating climate change, massive refugee flows, even the defense of democracy itself

We had emergencies since 20 years now. If everything is an emergencies, nothing really is.

Nobody speaks about killing bureaucracy at all, ministers responsible have their job to be responsible for the result. You cannot fire any bureaucrat in an institution as that would kill knowledge about statecraft. But you can fire those that engaged in illegal spying against their own values, you can fire those that take political prisoners to evade an embarrassment. And you should, otherwise people might stop believing any shit you say.

Perhaps if the author would be more vocal about civil liberties, people might change their mind. Freedom of speech would be a good start. Yes, I know that the butt is burning on this issue. As it should. Otherwise this article contains no sensible information.