Federal law enforcement officers walk into a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, after escorting vehicles out of the facility as protesters gathered on October 6. Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images
President Donald Trump is barreling forward with his administration’s heavy-handed efforts across the United States, in rather ominous and drastic ways.
In recent days alone, his administration has tried to skirt a Trump-nominated judge’s ruling against his use of the National Guard in Portland, Oregon. He’s attacked Democrats in speeches to military leaders and troops, even pitting generals and admirals against the blue side . He’s pressed forward with a Guard deployment to Chicago that the mayor and Illinois’s governor have rejec