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(David Bromwich is a Yale literature don who has been writing Assadist propaganda for the past 7 years, a lot of it in the LRB, a major outlet for such crap, including Seymour Hersh and Tariq Ali. This article is vintage Bromwich. It includes an attack on the Democrats for becoming the party of defending "the intelligence community" but bends the stick entirely in the opposite direction by defending Putin's intervention in Ukraine and in the excerpt below describing the cops as not showing a "pro-Trump disposition".)
Advisers to the president and members of his cabinet have been mobbed and jeered, denied service in restaurants, and harassed at home; and more such actions have been urged by the woke contingent of the Democratic Party. Representative Maxine Waters advised protesters to ‘create a crowd’ and physically ‘push back on’ associates of Trump. Manners aside, the trouble with such tactics is that they serve to justify an equal and opposite reaction. To the ordinary non-political sensibility, they also prompt reflexive pity for the victims, and squander whatever moral advantage the opposition may have gained from the lowness and brutality of Trump himself. Police, for the most part, haven’t yet shown a pro-Trump disposition, and Democrats should want to keep things that way. Among officers of law enforcement at all levels, Trump’s role as an instigator of popular disorders is the strongest point against him.
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