If you want to radicalize a population, there is no faster way than to use disproportionate force against civilians.

The National Guard deployment will delight supporters of his hardline stance on law and order, but opponents say its inflammatory

President Trump has long mused about using troops to crush violent protests or riots in blue-state cities. He is now moving to do so in Los Angeles.

The president’s use of the National Guard serves his own interests above the country’s.

The president is escalating the situation to justify greater force and repression. Now he’s talking about sending ‘troops everywhere’

As a pretext to sending in the national guard, the White House marked the Ice protests as a broader threat to the US

If you want to radicalize a population, there is no faster way than to use disproportionate force against civilians.

What Trump is doing in Los Angeles is a warning for the rest of the nation.

He is still dangerous, though.

In its first months in office, the Trump administration enacted what could be called soft authoritarianism. Now we are in a second phase