The violent anarchist federal agents that the wrecker has sent to Portland (and soon to Chicago) could be part of a scheme to intimidate voters in November.

Juan Cole thinks the wrecker wants to pretend that the federal thugs are trying to stop violent protesters and frighten suburban white voters, but I think that videos of the lawless violence of the thugs themselves, against people doing nothing to justify arrest, even against reporters, will turn that effect around. Americans detested the violence of local and state thugs on actually seeing it, and I expect they will react the same way now.