Here’s the thing nobody on TV wants to say:
When a president starts calling in troops to deal with protesters, the problem isn’t the protesters. It’s the president.

Trump doesn’t care about LA. He doesn’t care about ICE or borders or crime or David Huerta. He cares about keeping the cameras off the fact that his economy’s tanking, his trade deals are ghost stories, and half his own party is privately praying he forgets how to speak.

So what does he do? He picks a fight with California. He slaps “emergency” on everything like duct tape on a broken bumper. And he dares the rest of us to notice the smell of dictatorship under all that patriotic cologne.

This ain’t about law and order. This is about making us bow. And I don’t bow to liars with parades.