“Enjoy the long weekend.” Thus spake Kamala Harris, Vice-President of the United States, on the run-up to Memorial Day 2021. As many commentators pointed out, you wouldn’t know that she had Memorial Day in mind, because her tweet didn’t mention the name of the holiday. For her, it was just another long weekend, another opportunity for the sheep to graze unherded for an extra day while waiting to be shorn. Doubtless she is kicking herself, or at any rate the aide who suggested she issue the tweet—not, of course, because of the omission but because of the minor PR blowback it occasioned. The sheep may be docile but they are also touchy and unpredictable. Probably no-one Harris consorts with ever gives Memorial Day a second thought. Why should they? It’s a holiday that commemorates something they despise—many things, in fact: the spirit of personal sacrifice and duty, on the one hand, …