"The toolbox isn’t particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims. It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.soDc.3KXo-wEIcKA9&smid=nytcore-android-share&fbclid=IwdGRleAPipf9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEem1-Tc9exK--Za22Ov6GezxZa5Bm-uOAi-PtokprtGMdBg3bUKMohxl-_RzY_aem_uEIPXAKLVEP3s33MbtNhyw
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