The protests in LA have begun to spread nationwide. Protesters were arrested in New York, chemical agents were used against protesters in Atlanta, and police are monitoring protests in Chicago, where vehicles have been damaged. That last part is sad and unnecessary.
In the meantime, Mango Mussolini has upped the federal troop deployment in Los Angeles to 5000 troops. Let us be clear… this original deployment, and ensuing escalation, is nothing more than Trump manufacturing a way to expand his power. In a metroplex of 22 million people, the protests were originally confined to a couple of blocks.
If you believe Trump, and the MAGA base undoubtedly does, LA was on fire and being overrun by immigrant criminals. It never was. Now, he has created a headache for himself that will likely come to a violent head.
He is acting like a cornered animal. I am sure he is upset his plans for a bloodless coup are gone. He has threatened “heavy force” against anyone who protests his parade in Washington DC, peaceful or otherwise.
I am sure he has no plans to ever send those troops home from that parade. He wants the implicit threat of force to be very visible to a reeling nation. He may still try to stage a military coup, however, at this point, it would not be bloodless. Of course, he could not conceive that it never would have been a bloodless coup.
The Orange Idiot has been emboldened for years by a GOP that has completely capitulated to his whims and a SCOTUS that has handed him the keys to an imaginary kingdom where he thinks he will be some sort of diety where the entire world worships him.
That will never happen. We are at the precipice. The question is if we can find a way to back off from it or if we will tumble over and find a new reality.