The truth about what’s happening in Portland doesn’t matter to the Trump administration. Portland is simply the chosen backdrop for the president’s dramatization of a commander-in-chief whose troops quash a budding rebellion in a show of unfettered might. Cue the inspirational music.

That the supposed rebellion consists of protesters in frog suits and chicken costumes holding dance parties outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building is an unimportant detail. As this administration has demonstrated before, when reality doesn’t give you the pictures you want, just paint your own.

But the truth of what’s happening in Portland matters to the 640,000 of us who live here. While we have our eyes wide open to the significant challenges facing Portland, the descriptions of a cit

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