Trump’s Law-and-Order Blitz Keeps Colliding With the Reality on the Ground
Trump spent May 29 trying to sound like the one man who could restore order in Minneapolis, but the effect was the opposite: more conflict, more backlash, and a White House that looked increasingly disconnected from the country it was trying to command. The president’s threats and the White House’s Twitter fight turned a policing crisis into another referendum on his instincts. It was the kind of day that made the gap between his self-image and the evidence impossible to ignore.
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Trump’s Law-and-Order Blitz Keeps Colliding With the Reality on the Ground
Trump spent May 29 trying to sound like the one man who could restore order in Minneapolis, but the effect was the opposite: more conflict, more backlash, and a White House that looked increasingly disconnected from the country it was trying to command. The president’s threats and the White House’s Twitter fight turned a policing crisis into another referendum on his instincts. It was the kind of day that made the gap between his self-image and the evidence impossible to ignore.
Trump spent May 29 trying to sound like the one man who could restore order in Minneapolis, but the effect was the opposite: more conflict, more backlash, and a White House that looked increasingly disconnected from the country it was trying to command. The president’s threats and the White House’s Twitter fight turned a policing crisis into another referendum on his instincts. It was the kind of day that made the g…
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