That the politicians and other office-bearers of the world’s most powerful country, the United States, and the most vaunted constitution sit impotently watching President Donald Trump and his cohorts destroy both, is chilling. It belies all the security and solace the trustees of the great institutions and edifices of the nation have provided the majority of its citizens who have taken them hitherto at face value.
Now, even if only briefly — until it is likely snuffed out by state power, just as Afro-American George Floyd’s breath was by the police in Minneapolis — it is the ordinary people who have......