Many dissenters learned a valuable lesson from the experience, however: during the Covid Panic of 2020 and 2021, it became abundantly clear how little constitutional government and the so-called "Rule of law" actually limit a regime's power in times of perceived emergency.
As the Covid Panic revealed to us, the real, de facto ruling class is the executive state which effortlessly ruled by decree during the covid crisis.
These scholars recognized that political power in times of emergencies is exercised by individual persons who are unconcerned with abstract limits on their power.
During the Covid Panic, we saw Ludwig von Mises's views on political power played out in real time.
If we want to know what really limited the regime's power during the Covid Panic, we must look to The "Do-not-comply" activists who were willing to lose jobs and social status as a result of their opposition to the regime.
The US constitution and the Bill of Rights played virtually no role in limiting the state's power during the emergency.
The naive view of constitutionalism would have us believe that everything worked as designed as the "Balance of powers" maintained a rule of law.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/covid-showed-us-who-really-rules-america
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