**JULY 29, 2020**

Kuttner on TAP

What If Black Lives Matter Defended Federal Buildings?

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Here is an idea that comes from a 1960s hero, Barbara Garson, of whom
more shortly:

Trump and his stooge, Attorney General Bill Barr, disingenuously claim
that their storm troopers are in Portland (and other cities that just
happen to be governed by Democrats) to protect federal property.

Suppose Black Lives Matter interposed itself between Trump's gestapo
and federal buildings. Then we'd find out who is defending the
constitutional order and who is trying to overthrow it.

For those under about 65, God help me, Barbara Garson was the playwright
of the

**Hamilton** of its day, a 1967 send-up of LBJ and his family called

**MacBird!**, modeled on Shakespeare's Macbeth. She was in her
twenties when she wrote it, and

**MacBird!,** with its intrigue between the Johnson and Kennedy
families, played for a year at the Village Gate
in New York. (Trump awaits his
bard-there are several mad kings from which to choose.)

Remembering David Bensman

Our friend, colleague, and Prospect contributor
David Bensman has died,
just short of his 71st birthday. A stalwart of the labor studies program
at Rutgers, David was one of America's great labor historians and an
activist champion of working people everywhere. A much loved, gentle
teacher and a noble man.

~ ROBERT KUTTNER

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Robert Kuttner's latest book is
The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy
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