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- This Isn’t About Crime
Donald Trump is famously reluctant to commit troops abroad but salivates at the prospect of using them against Americans at home. That is the context in which one must understand his takeover of the Washington, D.C., police force; his deployment of the National Guard; and his threats to occupy other cities.Trump claims that he is acting to quell a spike in violent crime. And although he might very well feel sincere concern about crime, this does not explain his actions any more than concern about fentanyl smuggling (which he no doubt also genuinely opposes) motivates his trade restrictions against Canada.The most obvious reason for skepticism about Trump’s desire to fight crime is that he is the most pro-criminal president in American history. He has treated laws as suggestions throughout his career, beginning with his defiance of Justice Department orders that he and his father stop discriminating against Black prospective tenants.… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - A Show of Weakness, Not PowerIn the summer of 2020, as demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest against the murder of George Floyd, President Donald Trump directed the National Guard and officers from various federal law-enforcement agencies to patrol the streets of the nation’s capital. The results were a disaster from the perspective of crowd control but a delight to a wannabe authoritarian obsessed with good TV: Troops and police buzzed peaceful protesters with a helicopter and fired pepper balls at them as Trump walked across Lafayette Square for a photo shoot.Now, five years later, Trump has once again decided to impose his idea of law and order upon Washington. This time, however, the city is quiet, and he’s not responding to any protests. He’s sending in the troops because he can—because D.C., as a federal enclave with few protections from presidential overreach, makes for a uniquely soft target. This ostensible show of strength… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- The Making of a Trump-Putin SummitVladimir Putin is coming to America. Despite the international warrant for the Russian president’s arrest, despite his years of hostile threats against NATO, and despite him showing no remorse for his invasion of a sovereign nation.None of that matters to President Donald Trump, who announced Friday night that he would meet the globally shunned leader this Friday in Alaska. What does matter to Trump is that he may be able to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, the worst European conflict since World War II, fulfilling one of his biggest campaign promises.Many of Washington’s European allies, Ukraine included, now worry that the Art of the Deal president could propose a solution to this conflict that makes concessions to the aggressor, including and especially a redrawing of Ukraine’s borders, when he sits with Putin. Putin has made no commitments to cede territory or scale back Russia’s aggressive military campaign, and he has… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- The One Trump Flaw Most Americans Can’t TolerateTens of millions of Americans voted for President Donald Trump in the belief that he would be competent. They might not have been thrilled that Trump is a convicted felon, or pleased with his role in the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Many worried that he posed a threat to democracy. But enough were willing to overlook all that, because they convinced themselves that Trump would be an effective chief executive, that under his stewardship their lives would get better and the country would prosper.A survey from the Democratic pollsters Douglas Schoen and Carly Cooperman, conducted shortly after the election, helps illustrate the point. By an 11-point margin, independents said they would be less confident that the Trump administration would share accurate information compared with the Biden administration. Yet, by a 10-point margin, those same voters said that they thought the Trump administration would be more… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- The FBI Isn’t an Arm of the Republican PartyWe are about to find out, in real time, whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation remains a neutral law-enforcement agency or whether it has been transformed into an instrument of Republican power. Will the FBI help the Republican Party force through a partisan redistricting plan in Texas, or not? The answer to that question is of vital importance to sustaining American democracy.Republican state legislative leaders want to redraw Texas’s congressional districts to give their party as many as five more seats in next year’s midterm elections. Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers have fled Texas in an effort to prevent the legislature from reaching a quorum and passing the law. The lawmakers who left are now staying in Illinois, Massachusetts, and other locations. To force the legislators to return, Republicans have voted to issue civil warrants, which authorize Texas law-enforcement officers to find the missing lawmakers and forcibly return them to… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- How the Texas Standoff Will (Probably) EndTexas state Democrats had been plotting their departure for weeks. But most weren’t sure they were going—or where they were headed—until just before they boarded their plane. For a successful quorum break, the timing “has to be ripe,” State Representative Gina Hinojosa told me. “Like a melon at the grocery store.” On Sunday, she and dozens of her colleagues hopped on a chartered plane and flew to Chicago in an attempt to prevent Texas Republicans from redrawing the state’s congressional maps. They don’t seem to know how long they’ll be there or when, exactly, they’ll consider the job done. Perhaps, Hinojosa suggested, they can attract enough attention to the issue that Republicans will be shamed into abandoning the effort.Shame, however, is not an emotion experienced by many politicians these days, least of all ones who answer to Donald Trump. The likeliest conclusion of this effort is that Republicans will get… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
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