First the National Guard, now the Marines. President Donald Trump says deploying troops to California is about establishing law and order in the face of anti-ICE protests. His critics say the move is more reminiscent of strongman politics.

The showdown in Los Angeles represents a "perfect opportunity to fuse power, politics and spectacle" for an "unrestrained" Trump, said Axios . Trump is "edging closer" to invoking the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that offers him the "most extreme emergency powers available to a sitting president" to respond to the protests. "We're going to have troops everywhere , we're not going to let this happen to our country," the president said. Critics say he is "manufacturing a crisis," said Axios. The deployment is an "unmistakable step toward auth

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