Laramie Graber
6 min readAug 2, 2020

Portland, Oregon: Ground-Zero for Trump’s Campaign of Fear

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

President Trump’s 2020 strategy could not be clearer: cast the Democratic party as the party of violent anarchy that seeks to destroy America. The dispatch of federal troops to Portland, Oregon was an attempt to sow chaos and to lend weight to these delusions. Trump’s backers, in both the Republican party and the media, continue to try and spread Trump’s vision of war. A piece by Andy Ngo in the New York Post titled “Portland…