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As the Illinois governor, J. B. Pritzker , begins a run for a third term and contemplates a campaign for President in 2028, he has fashioned himself as a pugnacious spokesman for the resistance to Donald Trump and the sweeping raids by government agents who are carrying out the Administration’s mass-deportation policy. He has called the President “the modern embodiment of tyranny” in jibes that have made him a target of Trump and his lieutenants, who have said that he should be thrown in jail. His response: “Come and get me.”

Pritzker has confidence in his ability to deal with the onslaught. When I interviewed him a few weeks

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