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Opinion: Why Trump’s Premature Despotism in LA Should Terrify Us All

President Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump is so eager to be a king he can’t contain himself.

His decision to send in the National Guard to put down the “threat” of a few dozen protestors in Los Angeles was as pathetic as it was repugnant. His executive order granting the secretary of Defense power to “employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion (sic)” revealed not just his contempt for the fundamental freedom of Americans but also his desperate overeagerness to prove he could be—and that he is already—an authoritarian strongman just like the thugs he most admires.

This elderly fascist, fluffed up to full autocrat with the encouragement of his new deputy president, Stephen Miller, has thereby left yet another ugly stain on our country’s history.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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