Instead of responding to protests with attempts to understand and mediate, as civic leaders across the U.S. have done, President Trump has embraced a top-down approach that can be summed up as 'show of force,' writes NPRrelving.
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In the days ahead, the nation will need a way forward and a new sense of resolve. It will need people to show the way and provide that resolve.President Trump this week offered one model of leadership, quickly embraced by many of his supporters and allies in government. It may be summed up as a show of force. There should be emphasis here on both theHe scolded the governors of states ravaged by street violence, told them to stop being weak and get tough.
This was the gesture the president chose to make in the midst of the carnage gripping America's cities. But in his pronouncements to the governors and his barrages on Twitter, he leans toward martial models and metaphors. "Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis will never be mistaken for the late, great General Douglas MacArthur or great fighter George Patton."
It was a long time ago, long before either cellphones or videotape. But it was very much a show of force, an assertion of law and order, not unlike what the president seemed to be advocating in the current civil unrest. "Too often, those who seek ascendancy over their colleagues in government and try to dominate them are regarded as strong, and by that very token, successful," writes the Oxford emeritus professor of politics Archie Brown,"and those who work within a more collective leadership are deemed to be weak and less successful.
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