On a ride home from a shopping spree, I asked my 15-year-old grandson what he thought of the Jan. 6 invasion of the Congress.
“I don’t know” he said. “Did you watch it?” I asked. Yes, he had.
“Well, what do you think?”
“You’ll want me to say what you think” was his reply. “No, I really want to know what you think, based on what you saw.”
After a pause, in an uncertain voice he said, “It was bad.” But then he added something I did not understand, “But the police should have stood down.”
As we pulled into his driveway I asked “Should the police have stood down when people protested at Lafayette Square as well?” No answer.
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