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Trump’s Police State: Why Aren’t Democrats Stopping Him?

Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, argues Democratic politicians aren’t putting up meaningful opposition to Trump’s DC police state since they’re in favor of tough-on-crime policies.

From curfews and youth incarceration to slum clearances, Grandpre argues that their “balanced approach” is just right-wing policing repackaged in the language of reform.

Trump’s military takeover in D.C. is an authoritarian power-grab, but Democrats have barely pushed back.

@Ne0Nubian argues that’s because they’ve embraced the same “tough-on-crime” policies

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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