David Brooks: Ordinary people are leading the leaders

We have entered the endurance phase of this pandemic. We are slowly mastering this disease, but we have not yet done so. And so we wait — and endure.Endurance is patience. It is shortening your time horizon so you just have to get through this day. Endurance is living with unpleasantness. In fact, it is finding you can adapt and turn the strangest circumstance into routine.Endurance is fortifying. It is discovering you can get socked in the nose and take it.Above all, endurance is living w