From Charles Pierce's weekly newsletter: What the hell are we doing?

[kpete]

These citizens were rousted by warrior cops for the crime of sleeping in an alleyway? They were bloodied to the point of requiring that city crews were called in to wash the blood off the walls for the offense of being asleep in the wrong place at 1:38 in the morning. And this scene has been repeated, on one campus or another, all across the country. A protest movement again has encountered the warrior-cop mentality, to use Corey Robin’s useful phrase. Senators and mayors and pundits and the Speaker of the House of Representatives have called for ladling the National Guard on top of the riot squads. And what is the cause of this? A foreign policy issue regarding something our well-armed ally is doing far from our shores, where mass graves are now being discovered. Propaganda and disinformation abound. And now we’re unleashing the brutal power of modern law-enforcement—and, possibly, armed troops—against our fellow citizens on one side of the issue. Jesus.
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2024/04/unlearning.html#comment-6445784327