The American Reichstag Fire: Trump’s Deployment in LA Isn’t About Optics—It’s About Seizing Control
By The American Gadfly
Let’s stop calling it a “deployment” and start calling it what it is: an occupation.
Trump didn’t send the National Guard into Los Angeles because things got out of hand. He made sure things would get out of hand, then kicked in the door to prove he could. This isn’t law enforcement. This isn’t optics. This is the opening salvo of a strategic assault on state sovereignty, and the trial run for something far more dangerous: federal control over liberal cities, enforced by military power, outside the bounds of democratic consent.
You think this is about a campaign?
This is about a coup-in-progress—soft, legal, quiet, and escalating.
Step One: Manufacture the Crisis
It started, as these things do, with “law enforcement.” Trump’s DHS, under the radar, launched ICE raids across Los Angeles on June 6. They targeted immigrant-heavy areas. Raids weren’t just aggressive—they were staged provocations. The goal wasn’t to detain. It was to provoke. And it worked.
Protesters flooded the streets.
Fires. Clashes. Tear gas.
Union organizers arrested.
SEIU leaders zip-tied and stuffed into vans.
LAPD overwhelmed, Guard called in.
This was no accident. It was a setup.
Because right behind ICE came the real show: federal troops. Over 100 National Guard soldiers, deployed under Title 10—meaning they no longer answer to California. They answer to Trump.
Step Two: Bypass the Governors
Let’s talk about Title 10 for a second. It sounds dry. Bureaucratic. But it’s the legal keystone of the modern American Reichstag playbook. It means the President can federalize state National Guard troops without the governor’s consent.
Think about that.
Your governor no longer controls your state’s military forces. The President does.
And this time, that president is a man who has:
Called for protester crackdowns.
Flirted with martial law.
Publicly fantasized about dominating “Democrat-run hellholes.”
Now he’s doing it.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has called it out. He said the move was “purposefully inflammatory,” warned it could spiral. But he’s powerless. He’s already been overruled. And that’s the point: to test how far a federal hand can reach before anyone fights back.
Step Three: Gaslight the Nation
Trump’s press team says this is about “restoring order.” Tom Homan, Trump’s loyal bulldog and former ICE Director, called it “a necessary show of force.” He’s been hinting at this for months:
“This summer’s going to be different. Just wait.”
That wasn’t a warning. It was a plan. And now we’re watching it happen.
Fox News is spinning the whole thing as a triumph. “Look how weak California is. Look at all this chaos. Thank God Daddy Trump stepped in with the troops.”
But what they’re not saying is what this really is: a pilot program for federal overrule of local governance.
Step Four: Normalize the Occupation
Here’s the trick: don’t call it martial law. Don’t send tanks. Just federalize the National Guard, let ICE raids do the dirty work, and let the chaos justify it all. Keep the optics just blurry enough to avoid panic—just “maintaining order.”
But here’s what you need to understand:
This is how authoritarianism takes root in a democratic society. Not with a bang. With paperwork, headlines, and silence.
If it works in L.A., what’s next?
Chicago? They’ll cite gang violence.
Portland? Protests.
New York? Antisemitism, or whatever they think will sell.
And every time, the pattern will repeat:
Provoke unrest.
Deploy ICE.
Deploy troops under Title 10.
Overrule governors.
Declare control.
And you know what happens when governors can’t control their states?
They’re not governors anymore.
This Isn’t About Winning Elections
Let’s get this straight: Trump doesn’t need to win the election if he can win the power.
If he can create a legal framework where federal force overrides state authority, he doesn’t need your vote. He can declare emergencies, federalize forces, and control the country city by city under a rolling wave of militarized “interventions.”
This is about building a shadow government within the government—a state within the state—where federal loyalty overrides constitutional order.
What we’re watching in LA is the construction of that parallel state.
They’re probing the system. Testing the boundaries. Seeing what they can get away with. And so far?
Nobody is stopping them.
Where Are the Democrats?
Let me put it bluntly: they’re fucking asleep.
Biden? He’s battling stage four cancer, and his team is hiding him from view. Kamala? She’s tweeting about Pride Month. Schumer? Silent. The DNC? Busy sending fundraising emails.
Do they even realize the country is being carved up under their feet?
Newsom is the only one who’s said a word. And even he’s been careful. Measured. He still thinks we’re in normal politics.
But this isn’t politics. This is war by other means. The GOP has ditched democracy for domination, and the Democrats are still playing house.
Tom Homan Is Telling You Exactly What’s Coming
Tom Homan is not subtle. He’s said this summer would be different. He’s said they’re “not backing down.” He’s said “liberal cities don’t get to ignore federal law.”
And when asked what happens if cities resist?
“We’ll show them what happens.”
That’s not immigration enforcement talk. That’s military occupation language. That’s field marshal shit.
And now, the National Guard in L.A. answers to him and Trump—not the state of California.
How many dominoes have to fall before people realize this is a coup in progress?
The Endgame: Permanent Federal Supremacy
Here’s what they’re building:
A federally-controlled domestic army, deployable without state consent.
A legal precedent for suspending local control in “emergency zones.”
A narrative that liberal cities are ungovernable and must be “stabilized.”
A system where loyalists control the streets and dissent is branded terrorism.
They’re not just campaigning. They’re seizing the apparatus of control, bit by bit. This is the slow-motion construction of a military-political state, one that doesn’t need elections to rule.
And if they succeed?
Blue states become blue zones. Blue zones become occupied zones.
How Does It End?
It ends one of two ways:
Resistance wakes the hell up. Governors coordinate. Democrats call it what it is. Journalists stop pretending it's just politics. Organizers mobilize not just for protests, but to defend state sovereignty.
Nobody stops them. And it becomes the new normal. ICE raids and National Guard in every major city. Governors afraid to act. Liberals too scared to speak. A country under permanent low-grade martial law. And Trump doesn’t need to become king—he’s already ruling by proxy.
Final Word
This is not just a federal overreach.
This is a Reichstag Fire moment, and if we don’t name it, fight it, and expose it for what it is—we’re going to wake up in a country we don’t recognize.
The match has been lit.
The fire is spreading.
And the only question left is:
Do we have the guts to put it out before the Constitution goes up in smoke?
And that’s the news… about the news.
—The American Gadfly
