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Lisa L. Miller is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her books include Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control and The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics.
In the age of Trump, some progressives have embraced state power as a boon to democracy. We should be skeptical.
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