Bovino employs theatrical authority, a fantasy of self importance, and fatal overconfidence

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American history has no shortage of leaders who substituted authority for a costume. In the case of Gregory Bovino, performance has clearly replaced restraint.

Noted Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer also abandoned regulation uniforms for personal spectacle, and wrapped himself in a myth of invincibility. — Read the rest

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