It sounds like a movie trailer for a political thriller, complete with baritone narrator and heart-pounding music like the kind you expect from a Jason Bourne film.

This ishow it starts, the narrator intones. A president out of control as polls forecast his downfall.

In a small city far from the Beltway, shadowy men, no badges, noidentification, deputized by a rogue attorney general snatch so-called enemies of the state off the streets.

Oh wait, Ive seen this movie before, still living it in fact. Thatsmall city is Portland, Oregon, where federal agents were let loose to smack around peaceful protesters.

The trailer is the latest political ad from The Lincoln Project. It goes on to recount in some detail the thuggery that went on in Portland, noting that your town couldbe next, because Trump doesnt believe in the right of peaceful protest -- or most things related to a democracy, for that matter.

This is How it Starts, is the adstitle and refrain. It refers to how the end of freedom starts unless people go to the polls in November and vote Trump out.

I wish Bidens people would start making ads thiscompelling.

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