At the beginning of last year as Covid-19 spread across the United States, those opposing the government’s measures to tackle the pandemic gathered to protest at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. One of the more high-profile speakers caused outrage by suggesting that Jews in Europe during the Nazi era had more freedoms than Americans during Covid-19. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.” The speaker was Robert F Kennedy jnr, who later apologised for his Anne Frank remark, “especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors”....