CNN host Fareed Zakaria stated that the Trump administration is abusing state power and has declared war on civil society, ignoring court rulings, intimidating the press, undermining independent institutions and condoning authoritarian policing. The shooting deaths of two citizens in Minnesota highlight the dangers of authoritarian policing and unchecked power, he added, before emphasizing that if the law cannot effectively restrain power, the nation will become what history knows all too well: a society where the strong rule the weak.