"Bernie Sanders warned of the US's slide into authoritarianism following Donald Trump's decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city's protests against federal immigration raids. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, the leftwing Vermont senator said: read more
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from the street in LA:
'Every minute we are out here is another minute that they can't abduct people off of the street.'
Makes sense to me.
But then, this is why Trump was abducting people off the street to begin with, to cause an excuse to 'send in the Marines'.