Axios- For years, the Insurrection Act has loomed large in the minds of Trump and his conservative allies.
- In the summer of 2020, as Trump privately fumed over nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, White House aides drafted a proclamation to send thousands of active-duty U.S. troops into the streets.
- Trump ultimately was talked down by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, but he has publicly expressed regret over not acting more forcefully.
- Top Trump allies, including the architects of the far-right roadmap "Project 2025," have at various points called for using the Insurrection Act to secure the border, preempt Inauguration Day protests, and even subvert the 2020 election.
For Trump, the LA protests represent the perfect opportunity to fuse power, politics and spectacle. Immigration is Trump's home turf — his best-polling issue and the political anchor of his 2024 campaign, which promised mass deportations beginning on "day one."
Newsom, his primary Democratic foil in the escalating showdown, is the ultimate MAGA bogeyman and a likely 2028 presidential candidate. California, to many conservatives, embodies the chaos of Democratic rule: a sanctuary state that they claim is being overrun by migrants and destroyed by crime. More
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