Trump to California: Surrender

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President Donald Trump seems on the cusp of getting everything he appears to love out of the crisis in Los Angeles. An opportunity to stoke political divisions and suppress dissent. A showdown with a deep-blue state’s Governor with White House ambitions. A chance to nurse grievances dear to his base and largely ungrounded in reality. And an opposition party left...