"Beliefs Long Worshipped in the Churches of Conservatism Are Being Sacrificed in the Fierce Urgency of the Now"

"Fiscal disciplinarians on the right are largely swallowing it on the grounds that there is no alternative. Libertarians of the state-shrinking and welfare-loathing disposition are reconciling themselves to measures that they'd normally hate with the thought that they are temporary impositions that will be lifted one day. Once the virus is brought under control, either by the production of a vaccine or other measures, then politics can go back to business as usual.
"I rather doubt that."

Andrew Rawnsley at The Guardian explores the political and economic impact of coronavirus in Britain and the United States.