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BROWNSTEIN: "I said during his first term, I think it is more true in his second term, that he governs, Trump governs as a wartime president with blue America rather than any foreign adversary, as the enemy. I mean, if you look at the kind of the totality of the way he is trying to pressure blue states and blue cities to adopt social policies that they‘ve rejected, that are prevalent in the red states by threatening their federal funds, he's arrested now a judge, a mayor, a U.S. representative, a U.S. senator has been handcuffed and thrown to the ground, he‘s federalized the National Guard over the objection of blue-state governor, and not only that, but sent the marines into a U.S. city. You know, there is a kind of a fundamental vision of of blue America as something less than real Americans, as Sarah Palin put it in 2008. And I think he is just making explicit what is implicit in a lot of his policies, that he does not view himself as the president of the whole country. He views himself as the president of one faction that largely views the the other side of the country as a threat."