Yesterday, the Hill reported, “Judge rejects Newsom’s emergency request to limit Trump LA troop deployment.” Sorry, Gavin — Trump wins round one. The full case continues, with an emergency hearing later this week, but for now, federal troops stay put.
Perhaps even more encouraging, the New York Times timidly included this story in its LA Riot roundup this morning: “As Immigration Protests Grip California, Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain.” Haha, they’re finally starting to see the outlines of the trap. The sub-headline added, “Scenes of unrest” —unrest!— “have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party.”
Translation: the Left took the bait. Again.
“Party leaders,” a subdued Times reported, without saying which ones, “worry that the President is setting a dangerous political trap with provocations too outrageous to ignore.” The pullback is already underway: “As demonstrations spread to other cities, the Los Angeles mayor on Tuesday evening announced a curfew.”
The story even reposted, in full, this unflattering tweet by jab-injury poster-boy John Fetterman (D-Pa.):
It’s just people having fun watching cars burn. What’s the big deal?
The Times desperately begged Democrats for a lifeline, something —anything!— to work with. The story quoted Frank Sharry, founder of America’s Voice and a longtime ‘immigrant advocate.’ “Democrats need to figure out not only what they’re against, but what they’re for,” Mr. Sharry said. “I know it sounds trite, but you can’t beat something with nothing.”
Good advice. However, I don’t think Democrats are truly grasping the message. The Times reported that Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Ca.), chairman of the House Democratic Conference, said yesterday that his party’s response to the ‘unrest’ would be pivoting to Republican cutbacks on health-care programs.
Really? Well, it’s a bold strategy. Good luck with that one.
The article ended —get this— with the very first mention in corporate media of something I’ve suggested for months. Matthew Boyle, Washington bureau chief for Breitbart News, opined on Twitter that, “The more the Democrats keep this craziness with the protests up, the more I think Republicans could actually win the midterms even if they cut Medicaid.”
And there it was. Right in the Times, albeit crammed in at the last minute. The dreadful possibility that would defy history, which teaches that the out-of-power party almost always wins the mid-term elections.
I think they are beginning to regret letting the riots fester. Keep your eyes peeled for California to suddenly re-discover law enforcement.
Update: and so it begins! This morning, the Guardian ran a story headlined, “LA police make mass arrests as protesters defy overnight curfew.”
The scum sucker with the Mexican Flag should be a Prime Target for a Sniper too pick him off