General Discussion

...and who piss away any leverage they have in favor of getting nothing. Who continue to act as if we're living in normal times when we've been far from that for over a year.

And leaders wouldn't frame these as "proposals". Leaders would say they're "demands", and there's no bill without them being met.

And leaders would go before the American people and explain an anonymous, unaccountable, paramilitary force, that is literally secret police, has no place in this country. Leaders would explain how anonymity emboldens people to act badly, whether it's on the internet, or in the streets of our cities. That the country that wouldn't tolerate the terror of a Ku Klux Klan won't tolerate masked violators of civil rights even if they have the sanction of the government.

Real leaders do that type of stuff.