This Upheaval Is How America Gets Better
What’s happening right now is the way the U.S. corrects its own wrongs.
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.
