On the Amazon website, you can order a book titled “Republic of Fear.” First published in 1989, it’s about Iraq under Saddam Hussein, but the title applies to what America is becoming under Donald Trump: a country where only those who submit to his every demand can feel safe.

That group would not include the inhabitants of Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding county, where Trump got just 17% of the vote last year. The president has ordered the deployment of National Guard troops, who are authorized to use “full force” to combat “domestic terrorists” and “protect War ravaged Portland” — the 72nd most violent large city in America.

Past presidents have sometimes employed fierce martial rhetoric to deter foreign adversaries. Trump directs it at American cities and citizen

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