A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule

A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule

Today we need to examine something that reveals the machinery of authoritarian propaganda with surgical precision: how a handful of violent incidents across a few city blocks in Los Angeles was transformed into a “crisis” justifying the deployment of federal troops against American citizens. And how easily that transformation succeeded. I write this from Los…

Donald Trump just screwed up

Donald Trump is desperate to distract Americans from his humiliating split with Elon Musk, and from his highly unpopular budget bill. So he’s doing what desperate people tend to do: he’s taking a big risk in the hope of turning things around for himself. He’s essentially sent the military to invade Los Angeles, in the…

Donald Trump manufactured the crisis in Los Angeles

This story originally appeared in Jacobin on June 09, 2025. It is shared here with permission. You don’t think it’s gonna happen to you, quite frankly, until it does,” said Luisa, whose father was detained in a raid at the Ambiance Apparel factory in Los Angeles’s garment district. Immigration officers had arrived in force on Friday morning and invaded the warehouse, initiating what Luisa called “a manhunt for each and every one of the workers” …

Donald Trump Manufactured the Crisis in Los Angeles - RootsAction

The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures