Coronavirus is spreading across the world. As it spreads, it highlights the extreme risk and dangers to the United States that decades of an unquestioning commitment to globalization has posed.

First, coronavirus disrupted China, then Singapore, South Korea, it hopped a flight over to Iran; then Italy (notably in their northern financial district of Lombardy). Now, news is coming that Spain is also suffering an outbreak of coronavirus.

Meanwhile, American states possessing large metropolitan areas, that are along the coasts, as well as states–such as Florida–that are tourist hubs have been more exposed than other states. As I said over at The Seth Leibsohn Show recently: if you’re for open borders and limitless “free” trade, you are, on some level, pro-coronavirus.

The system is breaking down. But, that’s okay. It is only catastrophic if our leadership and society has become so tethered…