Just a couple of quotes from a commentary that has gone up recently on the Atlantic website. I urge you to read the entire piece.
It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel—including members of the National Guard—forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president's visit outside St. John's Church. I have to date been reticent to speak out on issues surrounding President Trump's leadership, but we are at an inflection point, and the events of the past few weeks have made it impossible to remain silent.
...I am deeply worried that as they execute their orders, the members of our military will be co-opted for political purposes.
...we must endeavor to see American cities and towns as our homes and our neighborhoods. They are not “battle spaces” to be dominated, and must never become so.
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