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On Friday, President Donald Trump said from the Oval Office that “ Chicago will be next ,” calling the city “a mess” and its mayor “grossly incompetent.” He claimed residents were “screaming” for him to come. At first, it sounded like another one of his casual provocations. But by Saturday night, the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon had been drafting plans for weeks to send several thousand National Guard troops into Chicago as soon as September, in a model already tested in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

This is not crime policy. Trump is overriding state sovereignty, occupying local streets with federal troops, and transforming constitutional lim

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