“We’ve come to an odd pass in American politics,” Chris Stirewalt writes in a recent piece. “The people who have the deepest suspicions about the way government works are increasingly enthusiastic about the use of government power.” It was a good lead-in describing what Stirewalt refers to as “the contradictions of paranoid nationalism.” Getting a bit more specific, he points out that “many of the same folks who say that government authorities shouldn’t be trusted to make sure vaccines are safe or that elections are fairly conducted also say that we should have the government