"'Hysterical.' 'Alarmist.' 'Trump Derangement Syndrome.' 'He’ll be constrained by institutions.' 'There are adults in the room.' 'You’re overreacting.' 'The generals won’t let him.' 'Stop being so dramatic.'
"Every single person who said we were being hysterical about Trump being an existential threat should be forced to explain how the President seizing control of the capital’s police force and deploying military units to forcibly relocate citizens represents normal democratic governance.
"They called us hysterical when we said he’d use the military against civilians. He’s literally doing it right now."~ Mike Brock from his post 'A Note on "Trump Derangement Syndrome"'
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
'A Note on "Trump Derangement Syndrome"'
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Excellent post. Have added him to my reading list
Yep, hysterical bollocks from this commentator.
A little bit of research will shwup this misinformation spin.
The news is that the President acted to prevent the coup while he is away from DC up in Alaska.
Who is this Shugam creature and why does he think anyone here cares about his grifting? Go away Shugam. Go well away. Stay there. Don't come back.
Bloody spammers. Have removed the offending garbage. Hope I haven't deleted any genuine comments in my cull.
Thank you Peter. These awful chaps are out and about everywhere. They are obnoxious. I am glad you moved Shugam on.
So, it's been 7 days. Any update on the rise of fascism in Washington D.C.? Worse? Better? Or the crime stats? Better? Worse?
I'd ask Mike Brock but he doesn't seem to have update the piece you quoted but has moved on to pushing the idea that Liberalism Might Need Some Populism in which he extolls FDR and Obamacare and his commentators on all his posts painfully hope that Newsom or AOC or "somebody" might rally the Democat Party and "Save Democracy", etc, etc.
And here I thought he was a liberatrian or perhaps an Objectivist because you linked to him. But no, he's just another bog-standard Democrat Party booster who implies that he's a classical Liberal even as he bemoans the technocracy his politics have slowly created over the years while positing how it could work:
It means saying: “I went to Harvard, but that doesn’t make my values more valid than yours. I’ve studied these problems for decades, which gives me useful knowledge, but you live these problems every day, which gives you essential wisdom. Let’s figure this out together.”
As Shrek said, "Like that's ever gonna happen"
@Tom Hunter: You serious?
As always, quoting someone reflects I agree with the quote, not necessarily with the someone. But you know that.
What's happening? Here's a sample (even though I know you know):
THE SPECTATOR:
BREAKING: "National Guard troops have begun arriving from other states to Washington DC"
THE ECONOMIST: "♦️ Three Republican governors say they will send national guardsmen to Washington, DC.
♦️ A court case over Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” begins."
GROK: "National Guard troops from Republican-led states like West Virginia and South Carolina are arriving in DC to aid Trump's crime crackdown, despite data showing a 30% crime drop since 2023. Supporters see it as restoring safety; critics call it political theater. Views differ—what's your take?"
GUARDIAN: "With Trump’s temporary takeover of the DC police department in place for the next few weeks, Quinsland said there had also been discussion about bussing homeless residents to neighboring areas like Montgomery county, Maryland, or parts of Virginia to be “out of sight of Donald Trump”."
JOANTHAN TURLEY: "Washington residents are again being played. They remain political props left stateless because returning them to full representation is not politically advantageous."
NEWSTALK ZB: "US National Guard deployment in DC may soon include armed troops"
ANDREW HAZLETT: "Just another pointless run-down and beat-down by unidentified masked men. Keeping DC safe from ... food delivery bicyclists?"
WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops leaves some residents questioning why high-crime neighborhoods aren’t getting as much attention"
THE BULWARK on 'Trump's Pro-Crime Power Grab': "Deploying federal agents on the streets of Washington, D.C. makes the whole country less safe. ...
"The federal takeover of D.C. is a power grab and PR stunt to make the administration look tough on crime, despite months of evidence to the contrary. ...
"Trump has deprioritized federal crime enforcement practically since Inauguration Day. In January, the administration gutted D.C.’s U.S. Attorney’s Office—which is responsible for prosecuting most felonies in the district—because career attorneys had the temerity to investigate and prosecute January 6th insurrectionists. And Trump, notoriously, pardoned or commuted the sentences of hundreds of violent criminals who participated in the riot, who—as it happens—were attacking MPD officers alongside the U.S. Capitol Police. In March, the administration retasked thousands of Homeland Security and other law enforcement personnel from major criminal investigations to immigration enforcement. In May, hundreds of FBI agents were reassigned to help meet the goal of tripling immigration arrests, leading some agents to worry about threats to national security and counterespionage work. Stephen Miller reportedly dressed down ICE and DHS staff for focusing on criminals, asking, “What do you mean you’re going after criminals? . . . Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?”"
ORANGE MAN, summarised: "Washington DC went from "most unsafe" to "safest" in days. People are flocking back, and beautification is next!"
True, but I think when one quotes from a person the other stuff should be taken into account as context. The context here is that Mike Brock is super-pro-Democrat. About the only thing I appreciated about that link was one commentator - quite "Liberal" himself - patiently trying to explain to the screamers there about what is and is not fascism. Suffice to say his nuance was not appreciated - including by Brock himself.
As to your list. Okay, but The Bulwark? Really? I thought those grifters were done. Oh well. As to the rest of the opinionators I'll take the Washington D.C. Police Union:
DC crime since the announcement of federal control versus the 7 days prior:
Robbery ⬇️46%
ADW ⬇️6%
Carjacking ⬇️83%
Car Theft ⬇️21%
Violent Crime ⬇️22%
Property Crime ⬇️6%
All Crimes⬇️8%
They do of course make the point that this will only become permanent when the idiot Democrat ideologues who run the town get rid of the insane social justice BS of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Act so that they can arrest criminals, prosecute them and actually get them in jail and away from the general public.
BTW, as I'm sure you know, D.C. has been under the control of the Federal government since Maryland handed over 22,000 acres of swampland. The stuff with the Mayor and Council represent the last few decades of the Feds allowing more local control - which simply turned into a city of bureaucrats overwhelmingly voting into power the ultimate Friends Of The State, the Democrat Party, who have done nothing since except pick corrupt Mayors and Councillors who in introduce dingbat laws that have turned the place into a shithole. The Feds always had the power to rescind such "government" in the case of D.C. and actually should have done so long ago.
And I say that as someone who has visited and even briefly worked there in the 1990's when it had no-go-zones like any other American city but also had nice parts. Now, the crap has spread everywhere, as any number of residents have attested (not Brock's commentators of course, with one lady writing of how lovely it was to bike through D.C, without seeing hardly anything nasty at all - which proved she was either a fool or a liar).
According to the Democrats and the Washington elite, crime in the DC was down by 31%. Really! Well golly darn and pass me a drink Sam. Just think, that meant that on average there was only one murder every day and a half and only one violent crime reported per hundred people. One wonders how much worse it had been prior them reducing it so startlingly (not).
DC has been known as the "Murder Capital" for years. The establishment have had years and years and years to get it under control. They never did. They never tried. It was enabled. So now the Federal Government has moved in to inoculate the place and clean up the disease. It's well past time to sanitise it. The place has been sick for way too much time.
Now that the Feds are in control the crime rate has plummeted. Surprise, surprise. Golly gee. Be that as it may, you should understand that there was something planned for when the President and key members of his executive were absent in Alaska. The move to return the DC to Federal Control was pre-emptive. It seems to have provided its intended blocking function.
DC does not have claim to "home rule" as some are claiming. It is subsidiary to the Federal Government. The Federal Government can take direct control at any time whether by Congressional action or by Executive action. They have just done exactly as they are entitled. Under the law they can go a lot further then what they have done. This move was quite modest compared to what their powers allow.
Meanwhile let's enjoy that it is said that "there had also been discussion about bussing homeless residents to neighboring areas like Montgomery county, Maryland, or parts of Virginia to be out of sight of Donald Trump”. These are some of the richest areas in North America. They are packed full of statist denizens, privileged bureaucrats, contractors, consultants, lobbyists, special interests and the like- all paid off the taxpayer dime. Good that they get to enjoy some of the consequences of what they unleashed on everyone else.
You know, ordinary people are really beginning to enjoy what this new President has been doing. I hear this more and more. He isn't what I expected. Definitely entertaining. Yesterday a man on the metro said something interesting. He said not to listen to all the bluster. That's just to confuse and is showmanship and narrative for those who like to be confused. He said it's chum. Ignore it. His advice was to watch what is done. That is, watch the actions and await the results coming in.
HJ
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