"Terry refuses to accept his older brother Charlie's attempt to blame someone else for Terry's failed boxing career. 'It wasn't him, Charlie. It was you,' Terry says. He recounts how, early on, Charlie told him to throw a critical match because the 'smart money' (i.e., their mobster-like boss) had placed a bet on the other fighter. 'You was my brother, Charlie,' Terry tells him. 'You should've looked out for me a little bit."
"That expression of the corrosive damage done by the failure to protect people to whom we owe a duty has new resonance lately. In just the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has successfully pressured the Department of Justice to bring baseless criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, whom he perceives to be his political enemies, and he has threatened to arrest both the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois."
The film On the Waterfront depicts corrosive damage when those with a duty fail to protect people, shown through Terry's confrontation of his brother Charlie for forcing him to throw matches. Recent actions by President Donald Trump include pressuring the Department of Justice to pursue baseless criminal charges against political opponents and threatening to arrest city and state officials. He has ordered the National Guard into predominantly Democratic cities in apparent violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Adviser Stephen Miller has labeled judges and prosecutors as protecting 'leftwing terrorism' and urged using state power against perceived networks, implying punitive action against legal opponents.
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