Top headline: New York Times, 1/20/2026
Bottom headline: Common Dreams, 1/24/2026
Vanessa Friedman reports for the Times:
Known as a greatcoat, the long, double-breasted Army-green coat with wide lapels, big metallic buttons, epaulets and insignia on the arms stands out amid the sea of bomber jackets and tactical vests worn by the ICE agents around Mr. Bovino. It is impossible to ignore. And it has become a flashpoint in the online conversation about ICE, in part because its historical antecedents are also impossible to ignore.
It was, after all, part of the classic military costume in World War I and II.
For anyone who has seen pictures of those wars, which is pretty much anyone who has taken a history class in school, the connection is almost Pavlovian in its immediacy and intensity.
[snip]
It is possible that Mr. Bovino, by wearing the highly recognizable coat and accouterments of an old-fashioned strongman, is playing to a very specific audience. Mr. Trump loves a man in uniform, as his military parade demonstrated. Even, apparently, if that uniform means that some minds go straight to the SS. [emphasisi added]
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