Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The image of National Guard troops, some of them from as far away as Louisiana and Mississippi, in Washington, DC, spreading mulch around the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin and picking up trash, illustrates that Twitlers insistence that he needed troops to crack down on violent crime in the nations capital was always a cover for an authoritarian takeover.