So this is why Bill Barr is such a bully

[Zorro]

Police in Buffalo shove a 75-year-old man to the ground and blood pours from his ear. Police in Brooklyn knock down a young woman and call her a “bitch” because she asked why she had to leave the street. Federal authorities in Washington fire tear gas at peaceful demonstrators, then lie about it.

Get the feeling law enforcement in this country is being run by a middle-school bully?

If so, you are not wrong.

Childhood bullies have a predisposition to become adult bullies, research shows, and, sure enough, it seems Attorney General William Barr was a teenage bully more than 50 years ago.

Back in 1991, during Barr’s confirmation to be George H.W. Bush’s attorney general, lawyer Jimmy Lohman, who overlapped with Barr at New York’s Horace Mann School and later Columbia University, wrote a piece for the little-known Florida Flambeau newspaper about Barr being “my very own high-school tormentor” — a “classic bully” and “power abuser” in the 1960s who “put the crunch on me every chance [he] got.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/09/so-this-is-why-bill-barr-is-such-bully/

[stuffmatters]

1. Vanity Fair (summer/fall 2019) on Barr & his tyrannical (Head Master!) father good too..

Lots of conflicted sexual/role i.d. in that household and in both father and son.

[Grokenstein]

2. Daily Kos, February: Barr is 'sour wine in a newer bottle'

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919856/-Attorney-seems-to-predict-the-future-in-1991-op-ed-calling-Barr-sour-wine-in-a-newer-bottle

In the article, Lohman wrote: "Barr was a sick and sadistic kid. He's come a long way from terrorizing seventh graders just because they wore racial equality buttons. Now he gets in front of cameras and says things like 'I am committed to the aggressive protection of civil rights and a Justice Department under my leadership will not tolerate discrimination.'"

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Rep. Maxine Waters said in an MSNBC interview Barr has been protecting the president even before he was appointed, writing a memorandum “basically saying the president can do whatever he wants to do.” "This attorney general has been shameless and brazen in the way that he has protected the president, in the way that he’s not served the American people," Waters said. "He is not the president's personal attorney. He's the people's attorney, but you would never know that judging from all the things that he has done."

[speaknow]

3. speaknow

That was so kind calling Mr a Bully, he's more than that!
I don't know the kind of High School he went to, But if
he went to the High School I went (Seward Park High NYC)
He would've got stomped out ! He was born in NYC so he may
know the School. Am I right Mr Bill.

[scarletwoman]

4. Great article, and some great comments also:

This is one of my faves:

An astounding column and a forewarning of worse yet to come.

Trump has gathered his bully boys and yes men. Mitch McConnell, by not conducting anything approaching an adequate impeachment trial in the Senate, “exonerated” Trump and fully unleashed the reptilian fury of his Id.

Imagine what four more years of a Trump maladministration would do to undermine the rule of law—especially with Bill Barr continuing as Attorney General.

Bill Barr is by far the worst of the worst.

Demagogues like Trump, Putin, Orban and Erdogan rise to power by fostering the fears and anxieties of those voters who believe themselves to be powerless and suffering from neglect. They then consolidate dictatorial power by seizing control of a nation’s justice system and using it to punish their adversaries.

With the appointment of Barr as the Lickspittle General of the Department of Justice, Trump has furthered his dictatorial ambitions beyond measure.

Couple the above with Barr’s frightening display of religious authoritarianism in his speech at Norte Dame University Law School, and then fear all the more for the survival of democratic pluralism and tolerance in the U.S.A.

Within Trump’s cabinet full of deplorables, Barr is the greatest short-term threat. He has Trump’s back and rump covered as no other among all the King’s lickspittles.

Those who oversee the despoiling of the environment are the greatest long-term threats, of course.

[TristanIsolde]

5. I read the name as "Bill Burr" and was confused for a second

Bill Burr does gave out the "vibe" of a bully though, or perhaps its just anger issues.