Even the lessons of the BLM era seem to have immediately been unlearned. Less than four years ago there was emerging consensus that policing was a violent institution that we'd come to rely upon too heavily. Now it's "let's ask cops to get rid of these inconvenient protesters."
I know that it’s dangerous to hold on too tightly to formative political experiences of your youth. But that said: I just can’t get over how much all of the lessons of the post 9/11 era, War on Terror, Iraq and the protests against same are being just entirely excised from collective memory.
