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Trump Has Delivered Only Chaos

If this is what a law-and-order presidency looks like, what is the alternative?
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This article was updated on Tuesday, June 2 at 4:40pm

“When I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order to our country,” Donald Trump said four summers ago in Cleveland, as he accepted the nomination at the Republican National Convention. “In this race for the White House, I am the law-and-order candidate.”

On Monday in the Rose Garden, he echoed those words.

“I am your president of law and order, and an ally of all peaceful protesters,” Trump said, as police teargassed and corralled peaceful protesters just outside the White House. “But where there is no law, there is no opportunity. Where there is no justice, there is no liberty. Where

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