As I mentioned in yesterday’s edition of Where Things Stand, there is an element of campaign-promise fulfillment intertwined in the Trump administration’s aggro deployment of National Guard troops to inflame an already tense standoff between LA protesters and local law enforcement. Trump’s spent much of his political career vowing to punish his perceived enemies (in this case, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and, more generally, a state that won’t give Trump its Electoral College votes). Before he was even back in office this year, he was already formulating a plan to punish states and municipalities that dare to be led by Dems.
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