This rerun is terrible
By James Bennet lives!
Needless to say, Cotton’s bloodthirsty demands are justified with a farcially exaggerated description of the situation in Los Angeles:
Violent insurrectionists turned areas of Los Angeles into lawless hellscapes over the weekend, with anarchists setting fire to vehicles, throwing scooters and debris at police, and looting businesses—all while waving foreign flags.
Despite the rising chaos, Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose office likened the riots to a Philadelphia Eagles playoff victory celebration, and Mayor Karen Bass, who refuses to support federal law enforcement, haven’t taken sufficient action to restore law and order.
Meanwhile, incredibly, Democrats and the liberal media have again called this outbreak of violence “mostly peaceful protests,” while in the same breath blaming the riots, arson, and looting on President Trump for enforcing immigration law. The New York Times described “largely peaceful” riots with fireworks fired at police, cars set on fire, and more than 150 arrests.
Actual news sources have described the protests as “mostly peaceful” because this is what they’ve been.
(And some breaches of the peace have come from law enforcement itself). The idea that LA is a “lawless hellscape” is absurd. But the inability of Bennet’s apologists to see this notwithstanding, this has always been what Cotton wanted — to use the military to crush protest whose content he doesn’t like. Their critics were right then and they’re even more clearly right now.