BUT MOSTLY SHUT UP: Whitmer to Michigan: Stay Home and Shut Up.

She did everything but brand her critics “barbarians at the gate” — unwashed hordes who stand against the good people who stay home and don’t make waves — when her provocative attitude and policies truly were a problem.

Consider the name of her stay-at-home orders: “Temporary requirement to suspend activities that are not necessary to sustain or protect life.”

Her order should have prohibited activities that spread the virus — that’s what public safety requires. Instead, Whitmer took her moment of power to tell her own constituents that they should not do anything that possibly could make their confinement more pleasant or productive.

Get used to the New Misery, comrade.