# Hang on … where are the well ordered militias?

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**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hang-on-where-are-the-well-ordered-militias/915961 "2020-07-21T22:56:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hang-on-where-are-the-well-ordered-militias/915961/26 "2020-07-24T03:27:33Z")

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Just came across this report from the scene:  
[The Battle of Portland: Trump’s escalating tactics against protesters are backfiring in Oregon](https://news.yahoo.com/the-battle-of-portland-trumps-escalating-tactics-against-protestors-are-backfiring-in-oregon-200349636.html), Patrick Symmes, Yahoo News, July 23, 2020.

From near the end of the article:

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> But the live-streaming of this moment in our history is having an effect, drawing global attention to a conflict conducted over just a few blocks of physical space. The last time I had been at a protest here, it featured countless American flags and a cowboy on a beautiful bay horse, all to support Ammon Bundy, the right-wing rancher on trial here in 2017 for his role in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation.
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> But even Bundy has now condemned the use of federal law enforcement in local protests, and the Three Percent Militia, arguably the most powerful in America, criticized Donald Trump for suggesting that looters be shot. Trump’s overreach is causing schisms inside these ultra-right movements; at an Idaho militia rally I attended in June, hundreds of armed men and women applauded as a speaker from Black Lives Matter condemned the police murder of George Floyd. If Trump can’t hold the Coeur d’Alene fairgrounds, he won’t take downtown Portland.

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