Sarah Sanders went on Fox News on Tuesday and did her thing for Donald Trump. She's no Karoline Leavitt, but she still has skills.

Sanders' well-performed act on Fox confirmed--for me, anyway--that the Trump administration's over-anxious mobilization of federal troops in Los Angeles was mostly to produce the opportunity for Republican rhetoric exploiting anti-California and anti-liberal sentiment. That would be for the political advantage of inflaming the Republican base and souring the political middle even further against Democrats while building a case for Trump's militaristic authoritarianism.

I'm not saying criminal activities haven't emerged in the anti-ICE protests. I'm saying they hadn't in a major or unmanageable way at the time Trump jumped prematurely at the chance to allege strategically that they had and that California's Democratic politicians weren't doing anything about it.

I'm saying Trump fanned emotions and could well have contributed to, or even singularly caused, the worsening of the protests.

I'm saying you and I will never know whether this worsening--occurring absent Trump's lighted........

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