https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/10\/06\/trumps-troops-return-to-a-city-that-moved-on-dispatch-from-portland\/?nab=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Five years after the city\u2019s fiery 2020 protests, Portland is mostly calm. That hasn\u2019t stopped Trump from reviving old battles, fueled by false memories and made-for-TV outrage.<\/p>\n
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there have been rocks and sticks thrown at ICE agents and the shining of lasers into officers’ eyes. According to recent reporting in The Oregonian, there have been 29 arrests during ICE protests this year, 18 of them in June. Still, most nights see a few dozen protesters at most. Comparing this to the 2,000-plus nightly protesters in 2020 is not just apples to oranges; it’s apples to an apple-flavored sugar crystal on an Apple Jack.<\/p>\n
This clearly doesn’t matter to Trump, who has shown little to no interest in what’s actually happening, instead relying on historical memory of the city’s fiery days to animate the proposition that “war-ravaged” Portland must be made to heel.”<\/p>\n
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