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

History has already written the ending for men like this.

Jason Weisberger
Jan 23, 2026
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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 invincibilit…

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