This Upheaval Is How America Gets Better
This is an extraordinarily tense moment in the United States. Currently on display are police brutality, racism, a president fanning the flames and threatening to use force against peaceful protesters, and a Defense Department leadership initially complicit in using the military for partisan purposes—during a pandemic, no less. Authoritarian states jeer at us, and friends . The head of the venerable Council on Foreign Relations the U.S. a “power in retreat.” Some American commentators compare the protests to , because in both cases, protesters believe that, as the writer Steven A. Cook has put it, “political institutions of the state and the to justify our country as a functioning democracy.
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