Critics of the administration have lined up to bash President Donald Trump as an “authoritarian” after he sent the National Guard to quash protests in Los Angeles against raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We have a president who is moving this country rapidly toward authoritarianism,” Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, said on CNN Sunday morning. “This guy wants all of the power. He does not believe in the constitution, he does not believe in the rule of law.”
Trump announced Saturday that he was federalizing the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 troops to Los Angeles, where protests against ICE raids erupted this week—a move California Governor Gavin Newsom blasted as “purposefully inflammatory” and warned would “only escalate tensions.”
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