Hannah Rosen
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Over the past year, as I watched Donald Trump demand unprecedented new powers, I wondered, don't he and his team fear that these same powers could one day be used by a different administration and a different president to achieve very different goals?
And maybe that's why they're using their new tools to change our institutions, even to alter the playing field in advance of midterm elections later this year, to make sure their opponents can't win.
We could win, but we are very, very, very likely to lose if we keep treating this as business as usual.
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Minneapolis remains tense this week.
People are out on the streets clashing with ICE agents.
Social media is full of a new kind of video.
Federal agents not out arresting undocumented immigrants, but getting into physical confrontations with American citizens, sometimes on otherwise quiet suburban streets.
One video circulating this week showed a masked ICE agent shoving a Minneapolis city councilman into the streets.
The protests come, of course, after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed an unarmed protester, Renee Good, in her car.
And they've grown dramatically with the Trump administration's response to the shooting, which has been no Department of Justice investigation, no sense of accountability, or even discussion of accountability.
In fact, the administration has reflexively defended the shooter and dismissed Goode as highly disrespectful and committing an act of domestic terrorism.
And then the administration is sending hundreds more officers into the city to double down on their mission.
which leaves citizens everywhere asking, have we reached the point where a federal agent can shoot an unarmed American citizen and we just continue on with the program?
Today, will there be justice or will things only get worse?