Two can play at this game. If Bill Barr’s Justice Department can declare the City of Portland to be “permitting anarchy, violence, and destruction,” then the City of Portland can declare the Trump administration to be permitting state-sponsored racism, mass death due to the covid pandemic, economic ruin for millions of Americans, and the advancement of authoritarian rule at the behest of a corrupt and lawless president. If the Trump administration insists on putting the media spotlight on Portland for nakedly partisan purpose, then Portland city officials should use that spotlight to describe as thoroughly as possible the crimes and failures of this administration, which are orders of magnitude greater than anything they can think to accuse Portland of.