YES, AND? CNN’s Ron Brownstein: Trump Sees LA as ‘Hostile Territory to Be Subdued.’
Wednesday morning, The Situation Room aired CNN political analyst and Bloomberg opinion writer, Ron Brownstein, in order to talk about the ongoing situation in Los Angeles, California. Brownstein tried his best to create clear division between parties while downplaying the events of the riots and made President Trump the aggressor attempting to “subdue blue jurisdictions” by using the military.
As read by co-host Wolf Blitzer, Brownstein wrote this in a Bloomberg piece, “Trump is governing as a wartime president, with blue America, rather than any foreign adversary, as the enemy. He is trying to use national power for factional ends: to impose the priorities of red America onto blue states and cities that have rejected them.”
Yesterday, Rich Lowry wrote, “We’ve all heard of the heckler’s veto. Karen Bass wants a rioter’s veto. The Los Angeles mayor maintains that everything would be fine if federal agents weren’t enforcing federal law in her city.”
But Barack Obama would like a word here:
Additionally, as I wrote in 2009, “President Obama has demonstrated that he’s always eager to view American politics as the continuation of warfare by other means, to flip von Clausewitz’s axiom on its head. Certainly class and culture warfare at least. It’s the Chicago way, after all.”
In December of 2022, Roger Kimball noted: The Deep State vs Donald Trump saga is not over.
The January 6 Committee, illegally constituted as it was, was a continuation of that work by other means — more or less in the sense that Carl von Clausewitz had in mind when he said that war was “nichts als die Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit der Einmischung anderer Mittel.” Ever since Donald Trump glided down the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his bid for the presidency, the leviathan has been out to get him.
The left has always been the initiator in the culture war. And they always seem surprised and angry whenever the right fights back, particularly when it adopts the left’s tactics and/or uses the new rules the left creates against them.