Tucker Carlson recently blasted President Trump's lack of action against the widespread unrest throughout the country. He announced that President Obama would never have allowed things to get this bad. The National Guard or even the 101st Airborne would have long since retaken the CHAZ and stamped out the riots in various cities. I generally like that plan. I'm all for peaceful protests but when they transform into lawless bands of looters and vandals, it's time to read the riot act. But let's take it to the next step.
Suppose the national guard or the military is deployed to end the riots and stamp out the autonomous zone. How will that be reported in the media? Will the president get praise for returning law & order to the cities and protecting the property of private citizens? Unlikely. Will the president be denounced as an authoritarian who stomped on the rights of black Americans to protest police brutality? Oh yeah! Big time! If Trump does nothing, he is a weakling in a time of crisis but if he does something, he provides the evidence for the old claims that he is a fascist. That is how it will be reported. It is lose-lose.
What to do? Trump's initial efforts have been to demand that the mayors and governors of these various cities and states take action. Governor Jay Inslee has the authority to call up the national guard and deploy it to reassert control of CHAZ. He has declined to do so despite Trump's emphatic prompting. By pointing out that the local authorities (all Democrats) who have the authority to put down the riots are doing nothing, the president is blame-shifting. Is it blame-shifting? Shouldn't the first group to respond to a local riot be the local police? If that isn't enough, request state assistance. If that still isn't enough, call upon the federal government. Yes, that would be federalism. Trump has further offered to help, if requested. No requests. The locals will neither put down the riots themselves nor will they accept some responsibility by requesting federal aid. Hmm. This sounds like a setup.
The people of Seattle voted for the government that is more or less cheerleading for the CHAZ/CHOP. Elections have consequences. Minneapolis has a Democrat mayor, a Democrat city counsel, all Democrat Congressional Representatives (Ilhan Omar among them), 2 Democrat senators, a Democrat Attorney General, and a Democrat Governor. Obviously, the Republican President is the problem.
Sadly, this is all about an election year. How will a crackdown impact the November election? More importantly, how will a crackdown be reported? Trump thinks that he is better off letting blue cities and states burn. Further, he hopes that blue politicians suffer in the polls and he's going to run ads putting the blame on them. By contrast, it will be hard for those blue politicians to blame Trump for not taking actions that they refused to take themselves.
Whichever side you are on, we have the worst political class in my life. Political maneuvering is more important that doing their jobs. Tragic.
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