This…
nytimes.com/2020/07/20/opin … e=Homepage
[b]'Headline: Trump’s Occupation of American Cities Has Begun
'The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the best-selling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It was part of a small flood of titles meant to help Americans find their bearings as the new president laid siege to liberal democracy.
One of Snyder’s lessons was, “Be wary of paramilitaries.” He wrote, “When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.” In 2017, the idea of unidentified agents in camouflage snatching leftists off the streets without warrants might have seemed like a febrile Resistance fantasy. Now it’s happening.’
‘The Trump administration has announced that it intends to send a similar force to other cities; on Monday, The Chicago Tribune reported on plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to Chicago. “I don’t need invitations by the state,” Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said on Fox News Monday, adding, “We’re going to do that whether they like us there or not.”’[/b]
…may or may not be related to Trump’s reaction if he loses the election in November.
But: Let’s face it, given 1] the coronavirus 2] the economic crisis and 3] the social unrest of late, we are at a pivotal juncture in American history. Who can really predict how far things will go? If, in the Fall, all three are enflamed all the more, well, given Trump to date, you do the political math.
This video is included in the op-ed: