Trump's Fantasy: Using LA as a Trap for Democrats

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Anthony B. Robinson
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Surely, I am not the only one thinking that what’s unfolding in L.A. is Trump’s fondest fantasy?

Gavin Newsom is right — mass-deportation roundups of people who have committed no crime is wrong. It is not what was promised and not what the American people support. A majority did support sending immigrants, those without legal status but who were guilty of committing criminal acts, back to where they came from. But not the roundups of people who are playing by the hard-to-decipher and often changing rules of the immigration game. Not people who were not only not harming anyone but actively contributing by working and paying taxes.

Meanwhile, the rock-throwing, car-burning, and assaults on federal agents are playing right into Trump’s hands. Americans have a right to assembly and to peaceful protest, but no right to commit acts of violence. To the extent that Trump can highlight, and provoke, the acts of violence, he is getting exactly what he wants.

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Then-Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge became a national star by calling in the Massachusetts Guard in response to the 1919 Boston police strike, which had ignited riots and looting. In the 1968 election, Richard Nixon used the riots after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination to win the presidency on a promise of restoring law and order.” Goldberg might also have added in 1968 in Chicago, and how that undid Hubert Humphrey’s presidential candidacy.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/06/13/trumps-fantasy-using-la-as-a-trap-for-democrats/

[Walleye]

1. I am assuming that Maga is doing most of the violence. Until they prove otherwise.

Those LA cops just love shooting women with rubber bullets