Trump, under the guise of fighting crime, has deployed National Guard troops to patrol the streets of the capital and federalized the D.C. police in a shocking abuse of executive power. But Rep. Ritchie Torres,

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President Donald Trump’s militarized crime crackdown in Washington, DC, is a clarifying political moment. It’s again exposed Democrats’ struggles to combat Trump’s hardline law-and-order rhetoric and splits within their party that the president exploited to win two elections.