obedience

Did Nexstar and Sinclair take marching orders directly from the White House, or did their leaders just seize an opportunity to curry favor and demonstrate obedience in advance?

Withers moves with physical confidence and perfect posture and drilled obedience.

But feeling alone and stuck in New York City, she turns toward this place of cultural familiarity, where the imam counsels her that she’ll be rewarded for her obedience in her next life.

It is not just because they are afraid of him — and that is a big part of their obedience — but because on a fundamental level they agree with him and his policies.

Instead, he’s showing them the wrong lesson: that obedience to the donor class matters more than representing constituents.