The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. It was just over a week ago that Donald Trump announced to the world this. Sometimes you need a dictator.
He's made a dictator joke before, but this was no joke. It was a simple statement of how Trump views democracy and the rule of law as hindrances to asserting his own will over the nation and the world. Trump made the dictator remark at the World Economic Forum in Davos as he was threatening to seize Greenland from Denmark. and end the post war order. But back home, we were looking at quite another side of the same coin, an American city, Minneapolis, seemingly in a state of siege.
Federal agents were going door to door, demanding identification from people on the street and detaining those who got in their way. Rene Good, a poet, had already been killed, and others had been wounded, but that did nothing to moderate their tactics. Then Alex Predy, a nurse, was shot and killed in a hail of bullets, after he came to the aid of a protester. The administration did what, frankly, a dictatorship does.
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