It's really not clear that this is real. No troops are deployed, and, no troops have been activated to be deployed. This may be like his supposed deployment of troops to Chicago.
My hometown alt-weekly reports Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland and they've amassed at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on South Waterfront. “We now have a sudden influx of federal agents in our city,” Mayor Keith Wilson said. “We did not ask for them to come. They are here without precedent or purpose.”
That could be. I get the impression that the courts and the Pentagon have informally vetoed any further use of federal troops where the governors don't want them. Sure, he can send in the feds, that's his privilege.
Some interpret the constitution as not giving enforcement powers to the federal government. Maybe the solution to not having federal agents in Portland is to have none at all anywhere.
Think about it. If increased federal agent presence is a net-negative for Portland, by sheer presence alone, then are they not a negative for other places? This makes their movement to Portland a net-neutral because other places now have fewer. Assuming as these people do that federal agent presence is a negative then the only way to have a net-positive is to have fewer in total and not worry about where they are.
That is of course unless Antifa actually loves the government, except the moment when it interferes with their communism.
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It's really not clear that this is real. No troops are deployed, and, no troops have been activated to be deployed. This may be like his supposed deployment of troops to Chicago.
I saw this on my Twitter/X feed:
https://x.com/ChristopherJM/status/1971971079536017467
So "federal agents", and not "troops"?
That could be. I get the impression that the courts and the Pentagon have informally vetoed any further use of federal troops where the governors don't want them. Sure, he can send in the feds, that's his privilege.
I'm sure they are there with some purpose.
Some interpret the constitution as not giving enforcement powers to the federal government. Maybe the solution to not having federal agents in Portland is to have none at all anywhere.
Think about it. If increased federal agent presence is a net-negative for Portland, by sheer presence alone, then are they not a negative for other places? This makes their movement to Portland a net-neutral because other places now have fewer. Assuming as these people do that federal agent presence is a negative then the only way to have a net-positive is to have fewer in total and not worry about where they are.
That is of course unless Antifa actually loves the government, except the moment when it interferes with their communism.
This also could be pure theatrics: Trump supporters love that Portland lefties are inconvenienced -> good for support among the base.
Most of what Trump does is pure theatrics.