When your only tool is a hammer, psychiatrist Abraham Maslow famously observed, all problems begin to look like nails.

That nugget of wisdom comes to mind as President Donald Trump implements his federal takeover of the District of Columbia’s police force and the deployment of 800 National Guard, a big hammer against local crime problems in a city he described as “overrun by violent gangs, blood thirsty criminals, roving mobs of youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people.”

Saying the troops will be armed and have the ability to conduct arrests if needed, Trump promised to “have the crime situation solved in D.C. very soon.”

And that’s just the beginning, he says, of a wave of similar moves that he wants to implement in Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Oakland and other cities, in accor

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