5/ "If America is still the world’s policeman, then we are Derek Chauvin with our knees on the neck of Ukraine or Panama, ripping off their “raw earth” or blackmailing them to take our shackled prisoners.
But why?...Gotti, beaming from the front pages of the Post and Daily News, appeared to the unmoored masses to offer what at a time of a crack-driven murder epidemic and the LA riot was missing: order. In other words, he alone could fix it."