President Donald Trump ’s adventures in authoritarianism have taken a turn for the ominous in recent days as he’s tried to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, painting the cities as dangerous, Democrat-run hellholes in which ICE agents can’t grab people off the street without a protest breaking out. The pushback has been fierce. A Trump-appointed federal judge, Karin Immergut , has twice temporarily blocked the deployment to Portland and questioned Trump’s reasoning. Democratic leaders, such as Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, are loudly challenging Trump and calling his actions an attempted “invasion.” Trump and his top advisers have only escalated in response with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller accusing Immergut of “legal insurrection”

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