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Oh, they cover the looters, often with a degree of sympathy. They also wax poetic about how we are all in this together with respect to COVID-19.

But for so many of the small business owners, the threat to the survival of their business, caused by the pandemic shutdown, the restrictions on their reopening, and now looting, is more than real.

As they lose their restaurant (as much as 30 percent won’t reopen in California) or their car dealership or their family farm, they will lose much of their life savings. If they are forced into bankruptcy, it will likely be years before they can start again, if ever.

That is what is at stake in these times. The actions of others, including government officials, are breaking the back of the very people we need to restart America.

Even so, if history is our guide, in the coming weeks and months, regardless of these trials, they will get up, dust themselves off, and will take a risk again.

As they do, their governments need to match the indomitable spirit of these entrepreneurs if they want America to once again be the land of opportunity.

Tom Del Beccaro is an author, speaker and former chairman of the California Republican Party. His most recent book is "" (Greenleaf Book Group Press, May 26, 2015).