This summer, shortly after scores of camo-wearing, heavily armed federal
agents descended on Portland, Ore., to attack protesters, Charles Fried,
Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general, pondered the implications of what he
was seeing on the streets. What he saw scared him; he remembered the
use of paramilitaries by fascist leaders in 1930s Europe, where he was
born, and he feared he was now witnessing a slide into paramilitarism in
the United States. (His family fled the Nazi occupation of
Czechoslovakia.) Fried felt that President Trump was using the
Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies in a way
that was “very menacing. You might as well put brown shirts on them.
It’s a very bad thing.”
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