The cowardice of our political overlords has a price, and usually that price is not paid by these decision-makers but by the general populous. Look at the Covid lockdowns, where politicians and bureaucrats not only got to work from home but got generous pay increases. It was principally small business and the young who took it — and continue to take it — in the neck. 

However, sometimes this political and policy cowardice comes back to bite the political branch, and it is when that happens that our political cowards get to feel some, but not enough, of the pain that they cause and the rest of...