What, I must ask, was the plan here? Was there one? Since Lujan Grisham made her statement, she’s been denounced by the sheriff of the county to which it was supposed to apply, by her own attorney general, and by figures such as David Hogg and Ted Lieu, who, in normal circumstances, serve as strenuous advocates of stricter gun-control. Could it really be that the governor just . . . blurted it out?

It is hard to imagine how Lujan Grisham could have made a worse case. In the space of a single day, she confessed that the order was predicated upon nothing other than her own desire, admitted to violating her oath, anticipated a legal challenge that she seemed sure would prevail, took square aim at the concept of legal rights per se, and, to top it all off, conceded that her idea would do nothing whatsoever to help the ersatz “emergency” she had declared.

[Cooke concludes that Lujan Grisham is a fool via Occam’s Razor. I’m not so sure that’s the entire answer. Lujan Grisham must have thought that the pandemic had ushered in a new era of technocracy through “emergencies,” and tried to gin one up to achieve her otherwise-impossible agenda on gun control. She miscalculated on the support that “experts” have these days, especially after the pandemic, but her only real mistake was jumping to the end of the Marxist plan to eliminate constitutional order on the way to total power. — Ed]