re: "Federal Agents Don’t Need Army Fatigues" (The New York Times, August 1, 2020)
But the civilized look of civil public servants acting in a civil manner does not so neatly fit the mythic rhetoric of bullies fanning flames of division with exaggerated buffoonery and wild talk, often fake claims and outright lies, of the need for a vicious "law-and-order campaign" to enforce their peace.
That sort of talk is exactly what we expect of of China's brutish Xi Jinping, of Russia's repressive Putin, and of despots throughout history riding on authoritarianism. The president of the United States, any US president, should be able to do better than the likes of America's despotic enemies espousing the antithesis of democratic principle, of respect for liberty, and of every ideal that had once made American great both economically and morally.
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