"one of the sad changes of the past few years is that I no longer feel any personal loyalty to the progressives I know, to represent their positions as well as possible

I used to do this, to be the great progressive explainer, but there's not enough there anymore"  -purplcabbage

Maybe impolite to ask but in any of these high-profile use of force cases was the victim sober?

The world is full of people who wish to think ill of America.  And most of them would like to be Americans.  –Roger Scruton