National Democratic politicians and mainstream media commentators have spent the last 24 hours blasting President Donald Trump for announcing a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., police. For liberal and progressive critics of the president, this is undoubtedly yet more evidence of his authoritarian tendencies.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for instance, condemned the president’s move as a deliberate distraction from his incompetence and accused him of hypocrisy because his failure to deploy the National Guard four years ago is what contributed to January 6th — even though former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund has repeatedly clarified that Pelosi herself was the person responsible for failing to enlist the guard.

And on CNN, Abby Phillip described Trump’s takeover of the police as akin to Batman coming to save Gotham, as if that’s a bad thing? I don’t know about........

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