This Is Not What Authoritarianism Looks Like

The absurd L.A. freak-out

President Trump’s activation of the California National Guard has launched a thousand op-eds warning of his authoritarianism. 

“This Is What Autocracy Looks Like,” Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times declares.

Edward Luce of the Financial Times maintains: “Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism.”

CNN, too, has a piece saying, “Trump is acting like an authoritarian.”

Goldberg believes we are seeing her worst fear realized that Trump would “call out the military against people protesting his mass deportations, putting America on the road to martial law.”