Eugene Robinson criticized President Donald Trump's handling of protests in many American cities as "uniting Americans against him."
The writer said in his article in the Washington Post that the first time he witnessed the use of tear gas and brutal force against peaceful demonstrators was in Chile during the era of military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
He commented that "the shocking abuse of the state authority that we saw near the White House on Monday reminded me of this place and time and clearly indicated the danger we are facing now."
The writer recalled the bloody events in Chile to disperse the demonstrators and use the worst types of tear gas - which was brought from the apartheid government in South Africa - for a memorial picture of Dictator Pinochet.
He did not imagine that the scene here in the Free Land in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, would be repeated this week, as the police dispersed the demonstrators with sound bombs, rubber bullets and tear gas to open a path for the president and his entourage for a memorial photo in front of St. John's Church - the historical episcopate - with a gospel in his hand as if it were a new tool And improved.
The author described Trump's summons to the army in response to the protests against the killing of George Floyd as authoritarian, and it shows how dangerous Trump is on the idea that America was based on.
He asked when he visited the place on Wednesday afternoon that this harmfulness that Trump had committed may have been beneficial and had the opposite effect. This is what happened when he found more numbers of peaceful audiences that were on Monday, and he drew his attention to this great diversity of attendance of white Americans, Latinos and Asians who participated in large numbers with African Americans and it was impossible to observe the established social distance, but most of the demonstrators wore masks. And face caps.
Robinson concluded that these demonstrations united Americans across the spectrum against Trump. He concluded that Pinochet believed that he could use force to intimidate citizens into submission as well, so he ended up being expelled from power in a referendum and renewed the precious democratic traditions, so the tyrants went what they did and the nation remained.