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David French

By David French

Opinion Columnist

President Trump is putting on a clinic about how to break the United States.

There are few things in American life more divisive than controversies over police violence. The racial reckoning of 2020 and the protests and riots that followed George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a police officer are still fresh in our minds. We also remember the unrest and violence that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014.

The last time a president invoked the Insurrection Act and deployed active-duty troops to American........

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