Memphis Police officers will soon be joined by a National Guard troops on the orders of Gov. Bill Lee and President Donald Trump. (Photo: Karen Pulfer Focht for the Tennessee Lookout)

At the very time Tennessee should be bringing to bear its proudest traditions of bipartisan local, state and federal collaboration – our history of elected leaders working “across the aisle” for good outcomes – it appears our state is being disserved at this critical moment.

Instead, we are watching a perversion of that history by Gov. Bill Lee and both our U.S. senators, out of a fear they might displease an extreme president.

When President Donald Trump announced on September. 15, that federal troops would be deployed to the streets of Memphis, the cheerleading by Tennessee’s top three elected officials

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