To the editor : This action has nothing to do with crime ( “Trump embraces tough-on-crime mantra amid D.C. takeover as he and Democrats claim political wins,” Aug. 22). There are many red cities that have much higher crime rates than Washington. If Trump were a “law and order” president, he would have called the National Guard when the Capitol of the United States was attacked and police officers injured during the Jan. 6 insurrection by his supporters.

No, this is akin to 1930s Germany, when Adolf Hitler was unleashing his brownshirts to intimidate the general populace and soften them up for a dictatorship. Creating a false emergency and then pretending to be the solution is a page right out of the dictator’s playbook.

This is not just another news story. This is the news story of

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