Will a nation gripped by fear get the leadership it badly needs today?

THROUGHOUT our country there has never been fear like there is right now.

There is so much fear, in so many homes and families, that it’s almost as if there was a terrible fatalism abroad, a sense that we must have done something terribly wrong to deserve whatever is going to happen next.

We haven’t done anything wrong, of course. At least most of us haven’t. Most of us have tried to lead the lives we have always led, caring for our loved ones, hoping that everything will turn out right in the end.