Having visited Portland only once for a half-day, getting a sense of the city's mood, things could not have been this bad or worse before Trump pulled another shallow stunt by delibrertely inserting federal disruption and havoc agents, thinking it might marginally aid his reelection.

It won't. This is what Trump's Portland stunt did.

It surpasses the Trump-Barr clearing of Lafayette Park for the Trump bible-waving stunt, which was obscene enough (as well as totally unnecessary), but his bible-waving BS was neither as destructive to citizens nor as costly in federal taxpayer dollars as the Rape of Portland, brought there by Trump's invading federal army. By an invading army never once wanted nor requested by local government officials familiar with the pre-invasion situation and how to handle it. It was the Trump equivalent of taking a blow torch to his iPhone because he thought it was too slow. Moreover, it was a conscious decision to be far more brutal than the way the Ammon Bundy grazing standoff was handled.

Courthouse News.

Tolerance and far less brutality was used against the Bundy insurrectionist crowd.

Different times. Different head of state. Sober and sane minds in 2014. Put differently, a reality TV mentality stoked with meanness really sucks. Especially a sick and perverted one. UPDATE: Make that sick and perverted pair, Bill Barr is the AG Trump wanted Sessions to be, but Sessions had too much honor to be a Bill Barr. Barr is as happy as a bear in a honey tree. As he was with the Bush family.