In Donald Trump ’s increasingly addled worldview, if he can imagine it, he has the authority to do it. “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States,” he told reporters this week in the Oval Office, justifying his decision to deploy armed National Guard units to Washington, D.C., and his threats to send forces to Chicago and beyond. “If I think our country is in danger — and it is in danger in these cities,” he said, “ I can do it. ”

Trump is using the military to beta-test an American police state . And he is going about it in a way that could stoke conflict between military units of Republican- and Democratic-governed states, says Ret. Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who spoke to reporters on a conference call, Tuesday. “That’s the scariest thin

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