President Donald Trump’s extraordinary moves to put troops on US soil appear to be following a familiar political script.

It goes like this: Trump seizes on an issue that’s one of his strengths and is also a major concern for many Americans in an effort to try to expand his power . But despite both of those factors, he appears to go too far for most Americans.

It happened with immigration and deportations; it now appears to be happening with Trump sending troops to major American cities to combat crime.

We’ve now got three new polls on the latter issue. They arrive as Trump threatens to send troops to a third city, Chicago , after previously sending them to Los Angeles (in response to protests against his immigration raids) and Washington, DC, (as part of a federal crackdown th

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