Chicago is attempting to model resistance to Donald Trump’s looming authoritarian military occupation of its streets.

What do you do when you’re mayor of a blue city and a far-right president sends the military to your streets? Right now, we’re seeing two very different answers.

In Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser has chosen capitulation: she’s made clear she “greatly appreciate[s]” Donald Trump’s military occupation of her city, gushed that it has lowered crime, and, with troops’ time in the city expiring, ordered the city to keep indefinitely cooperating with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law.” White House officials have praised her for “working with the administration behind the scenes,” dismissing her criticisms of the president’s actions as just “thi

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