The pandemic has been a dismal slog. For many, a more appealing message than “Get the vaccine to protect your neighbors” is “We’re almost there—get this vaccine and you can have the biggest party in a generation.” And no one throwing a party entrusts planning to public-health officials. Populist politicians need to step up. Cash. Beer. Bacon. Lottery tickets. And the promise of Fauci in the dunk tank. That’s all it would take. I can see it so clearly. Pandemic Victory Day would be both a celebration and a spur to additional shots, harnessing vulgar populism to help America surprise the world with its 90-plus percent vaccination rate, even as it exports greater numbers of doses daily to poorer countries in need of help. By embracing that which they find distasteful, elites can prove that they aren’t just virtue signaling. This really matters.