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It has come to the point, for many, that to understand “America First” one must agitate for it.
Go outside without a mask, visit family in the next town over. Go to the park and hang-out with friends.
The American ethos, the American experience, the American Way has always been one of pseudo-selfishness. And I am selfish. These are MY freedoms, not a collective freedom dependent on the whims of a “society”. Sorry millennial libertarians, you are wrong.
The Bill of Rights are my God given rights, given to ME according to my existence here on earth. It is these rights that keep the American society peaceful and respectful of the individual according to our individual relationships. To wit, if I know my neighbor owns a printing press, I won’t publicly deride his manhood.

If you (royal you) want to give them up, you can but DO NOT project your acquiescence of those rights onto ME. Do not request that “society” remove those rights from me for my own safety. I’m selfish in that way.

Yet, some will point to the phrase “We, the people.” fine and good, work that mobocracy canard. The People give consent to be governed but are not “endowed by their creator” to diminish MY God given rights...or yours. That is what pure democracy looks like.

Doesn’t the Left already interpret the Constitution as rights given to The People by the government as if no one thought of individual, God-given rights before they were written down by the Founding Fathers? We speak all the time of these INDIVIDUAL rights but many will be bullied into believing that they are actually societal rights and can be removed according to the whim of society.

Tell me, comrades, can you go next door and converse with your neighbor? Do you fear being arrested (custodially) and given a summons if the police observe you shaking hands on the street? Do you suspect others are watching you to violate some fiat given by the governor of your State.

Well, you can’t fight city hall, right?
Or, can you?