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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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From: S. maltophilia10/6/2025 3:52:28 PM
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Trump’s March on Chicago

Trump used a thin pretext to invade LA. Now he aims to send the National Guard into Chicago and Portland—just because he can.

Garry Kasparov

Oct 06, 2025

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I’m not into click-bait headlines heralding the death of democracy. Democracy is a system; an idea. It’s hard to pin a precise expiration date on something like that. You rarely go to sleep in a free society and wake up under a dictatorship. Authoritarianism erodes freedom steadily.

But there are waypoints on the road to democratic oblivion. Each one you pass makes it harder to turn around.

For the United States, the National Guard’s imminent deployment to Chicago is one....

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