“Simpson equates bulldozing Meigs with similarly “autocratic” schemes greenlit by Daley’s father, Mayor Richard J. Daley, such as ordering police to maintain law and order among protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, resulting in violent clashes.”
Might as well say that Simpson equates 2 with 4.
I caught that too, nice bit of revisionist wankery there. Daley sr was a Democrat - but he understood that a nutbar with a lit Molotov cocktail is a dangerous thing. I recall reading an account of the ‘68 convention written by a cop who was there. It was very, very much different than the Time-Life version everybody has been operating with.