Authoritarians' Promise Of "Law And Order" Always Translates To Lawlessness At The Top

We must teach ourselves to gaze into the heart of darkness of the times without losing heart.

Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law, deployed by the political class to carry out their criminal intent. A defining refrain of Adolf Hitler was: “law and order.” Law enforcement entailed the perpetration of authoritarian ideology on the German public. To wit, we are witnes…