Trump's LA Crackdown Is Prelude To Military Suppression of "No Kings Day" Protests

ICE Raids Timed And Targeted In LA To Incite Riots

• National Guard Mobilization Is Trial Balloon For June 14 DC Military Crackdown

All you fascist bound to lose, you're bound to lose. ~~~ Woody Guthrie (listen)

What's going on in LA right now is no accident.

It is a well planned and executed strategy to expand Trump's power and crush dissent.

Trump has been itching for a pretext to suppress domestic protest with military force for a long time - recall that he tried to do so in his first term in Seattle, Minneapolis, and DC during BLM protests. In DC he even went so far as to ask the military to shoot protesters in the leg, an order the Pentagon Generals resisted, but current Trump loyalist Secretary of Defense Hegseth won't.

Trump has systematically violated legal limits, political and institutional barriers, and historic norms on the exercise of Executive Power, even calling himself a "King".

There is no doubt that Trump targeted California (blue state) and who he calls Gov. “Newscum”. He targeted LA - the Hispanic/Latino population in Los Angeles County is 48% of the population - for the violent ICE mobilization as a place sure to push back and protest such fascist and racist police state tactics.

Trump's Presidential declaration to mobilize the National Guard in LA without the California Governor's request - including threat to deploy the Marines - is another egregious example of this Executive power grab, which effectively makes Trump a Dictator.

Trumps knows that public opinion is turning against his cruel ICE deportation program. He also knows that a riot is a perfect opportunity to try to stem that shifting tide of public opinion and reframe the protesters as violent "terrorists" and part of his imaginary "foreign invasion" Big Lie he has used to assert Executive power and legally defend and politically justify his deportation program.

The same lies have been used to brand criticism of Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing on the Palestinians as "anti-Semitism" and crush academic freedom, legitimate non violent protests, and persecute the protesters.

This same Big Lie was the basis of the power Trump invoked to mobilize the National Guard in LA and can be the basis for declaration of Martial Law.

Trump knows that he is extremely politically vulnerable to criticism in the upcoming "No Kings Day" nation-wide and DC protests - which again not coincidentally correspond with his $65 million military parade birthday party.

So, driven by these strategic objectives and timing of events, the LA ICE raids, the incited riots, and the military crackdown were all part of a well planned Trump fascist campaign.

The LA campaign has become the trial propaganda balloon for cracking down on "NO Kings" day protests and possibly declaring Martial Law.

If Trump gets little pushback from Congress, the Press, and the American people, he will feel emboldened to go even further.

So get out into the streets nationwide for No Kings Day on June 14 and tell him "No Fascist USA!" "Trump Must Go, Now!"