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William Barr's opening testimony today is saturated with evasion and dishonesty. It unwittingly reveals Trump's vision of "law and order": The law is there to protect Trump's corruption and manufacture authoritarian agitprop for his reelection. New piece:
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It deserves more attention that Bill Barr, the nation's chief law enforcement officer, is claiming the *entire* Russia story is "bogus."

Russian subversion of US democracy was confirmed in great detail by special counsel and *bipartisan* Senate probe:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Also: Bill Barr's depiction of the legal issues surrounding Trump's law enforcement crackdown on Portland is saturated with evasion and misdirection. He's helping Trump engage in massive abuses of power by giving them the imprimatur of "law and order":

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Newsflash: Fox News may be helping destroy Trump's reelection chances. Fox is persuading Trump that his leadership is crushing coronavirus, that his crackdowns on protests showcase his great strength, and that he's winning arguments he's losing. New piece:
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In the Fox narrative, voters crave Trump's hyper-militarized crackdowns and his Mt. Rushmore speech is the greatest oratory since Cicero.

But in this telling, there's no room for acknowledgment that Trump is widely seen as an inciting, destructive force:

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Remarkable poll findings:

College educated whites trust Biden over Trump *on crime and safety* by 52-40. Among college white women, that's 58-37 (!).

And more suburbanites say USA will be *less* safe if Trump wins (48) than say that about Biden (37).

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Let's be clear: Trump is now trying to scare seniors who rightly fear getting killed by the pandemic he disastrously screwed up into instead fearing death from criminals in a Biden police-free dystopia that's entirely invented. But it's failing. New piece:
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Here's a really remarkable poll finding:

Biden is more trusted than Trump to handle *crime and safety,* even *among seniors*!

This comes as Trump spends millions on an ad featuring an elderly woman terrified of an imaginary Biden police-free future:

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What if Trump's latest surge of law enforcement is actually a climb down masquerading as an escalation?

Before, he sent law enforcement to battle protesters, to create TV imagery that sent an authoritarian thrill up his leg.

Now it's joint task forces.

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Trump is using law enforcement to manufacture a campaign lie about Biden. He told us so himself, straight from the Oval Office! This is what got him impeached: Manipulating govt to invent Biden smears. In both cases, his own TV ads confirm the point.
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Here's a great point from former DHS official @juliettekayyem: There's zero operational justification for Trump's use of federal law enforcement this way.

This is especially true, given that state and local officials are opposed to what Trump is doing:

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@juliettekayyem Another point: Not enough is being made of the fact that Trump *explicitly* said the cities getting targeted by federal law enforcement are "all run by Democrats."

As @anneapplebaum says, this is "performative authoritarianism." It's also self-damning.

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