Trump's deployment of federal agents could suppress voter turnout, argues Jason Stanley, an expert on fascism at Yale University

• Jason Stanley, a philosophy professor at Yale University, argues that Trump's deployment of federal agents in cities such as Portland could serve to reduce voter turnout.
• Research suggests that voting declines in communities that have the most exposure to law enforcement.
• "One thing we need to worry about is CBP and ICE being used to intimidate people at the polls," Stanley said. "I'm not predicting it will happen. I'm not saying it will happen. I'm saying that we have to worry about it."
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The deployment of federal agents in cities such as Portland, Chicago, and Albuquerque serves one purpose, from the perspective of President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, one expert believes: it shows the president of the United States taking the "law-and-order" fight to the left and people protesting police brutality, in cities led by Democrats.

"It's not obvious that it's working," Jason Stanley, a philosophy professor and expert on fascism at Yale University, said in an interview with Business Insider. Trump is less popular now than he was before civil unrest rocked major cities. That, however, presents another concern.

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• Trump announced a 'surge' of federal agents to cities led by Democrats. The author of 'How Fascism Works' says Trump is 'performing fascism.'
• Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon warns Trump will deploy federal agents in cities across the country: 'What is happening in my hometown won't stop at my hometown'
• Oregon lawmakers decry Trump's 'authoritarian tactics,' as reports surface of people being seized off the streets of Portland by federal officers in unmarked vehicles

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