Lingamfelter: On Legislating | Bearing Drift

I was a legislator in the Virginia General Assembly for 16 years following a 28-year career in the U.S. Army. The latter was not entirely helpful to the former. Sure, there were many leadership lessons I learned from the military that helped me as a legislator. But legislating is a “different breed of cat” from leading combat troops. You don’t have to arrive at consensus when you tell soldiers to “take that hill now.” Nor can you expect…