In Oregon

In Portland, where I lived for three years ...

Trump has sent federal troops to Portland, against the wishes of local police and elected officials, to snatch peaceful protestors off the streets and drive them away in unmarked vans (they shot one peaceful protestor in the head). Trump is playing to his base, painting demonstrators as violent mobs that must be "dominated" before they can "destroy the suburbs". It's meant to distract us from the terrible job he is doing (actually not doing) on the virus.

Mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, states that Portland doesn't need or want these Federal troops,and that they are only making the situation worse ...



Here is the governor of Oregon, Kate Brown, with the same opinion ...



It's Trump's banana republic - we just live in it.