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Mette Frederiksen responds to president amid febrile atmosphere after US actions in Venezuela

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What the Trump administration is portraying as a drug mission may be about a lot more. Even as the Pentagon is being quiet about details of the operations, it is being vocal about the threat it is laying down.

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold. Inspiring terror, as a tactic, is openly acknowledged.

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.