Commentary I attended the annual Statesmen’s Dinner of the Tennessee Republican Party Saturday night, the first in two years since 2020’s was postponed due to the pandemic. The most striking thing about the event was the surprisingly large size of the crowd. 1400 plates were sold, which made it, according to the woman in charge of such matters, the largest public dinner in the country since COViD. I can’t vouch for this claim, but there certainly were a lot of people in the banquet room of the Music City Center—not a single one of them, that I could see, wearing a mask or anything similar (other than some of the servers). I guess there wasn’t too much fear of the new bogeyman, the Delta variant, that’s been causing a certain amount of confusion lately. Apparently, even the White House doesn’t know if there’s a test for it. And although it …