The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities

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I think there's a particular lens worth using right now as we watch the Trump administration deploying the National Guard from red states into blue cities. We are watching a rural political coalition militarily occupying urban centers. It is moving armed troops in over the objections of their residents. of their mayors and of their governors. Here's J.B.

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