Donald Trump’s increasingly frequent threats to deploy federal officers and troops to Democrat-led cities, was called out by analyst Ron Brownstein on Monday morning as he warned against labeling such efforts as a mere “distraction.”

“When Democratic congressional leaders like [Sen.] Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and [Rep.] Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) criticize Trump's actions in terms of threatening democracy or deploying troops to U.S. cities, they almost invariably describe it as a distraction from something else, whether it's Epstein, Medicaid cuts or inflation,” Brownstein said, speaking on CNN.

“That infuriates a whole other camp of Democrats who believe that the deployment of troops to U.S. cities, the other steps Trump has taken aren't the distraction, they are the central front of his second term!”

While Trump has only enacted a federal takeover of one U.S. city thus far, Washington, D.C., he has ramped up threats to deploy federal officers and troops to other Democrat-run cities, including Chicago and Baltimore.

In his advice to Democrats, Brownstein urged the party to follow the lead of Illinois and California Govs. J.B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom in facing Trump head on against his threats to take control of American cities, warning that, if allowed to go unchallenged, the country would soon normalize a “fundamentally alien” new precedent.

“Do you want to run against Trump fundamentally on the price of eggs, or do you want to focus the public on the things that he is doing that very much depart from our traditions?” Brownstein said.

“The idea of armed troops in multiple American cities, whatever the justification, is fundamentally alien from the American tradition. We have not seen troops in U.S. cities except at the moments of greatest civil disorder.”

When asked whether he agreed with Pritzker, who said on Sunday that Trump’s threats to take over Chicago were part of a plan to “stop the elections in 2026,” Brownstein said that, given Trump’s record, “anything is on the table and possible.”

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