Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“We’re now in the second week of Trump’s so-called ‘takeover’ of Washington, DC, where he’s formally federalized the city’s police and mobilized national guard troops and federal agents to help crack down on crime. So far, a few hundred people have been arrested. … the establishment media frames the entire episode as Trump, for the first time in the country’s history, ushering in a federal ‘police state.’ The right, in contrast, has seemed to enjoy the optics of armed agents in tactical gear flanked by armored National Guard vehicles patrolling DC neighborhoods, arresting people, and clearing homeless encampments …. genuine or not, the president’s effort to clean up DC and any other crime-ridden cities is hampered by a misunderstanding of the true root of this blue-city crime phenomenon, which is the monopolization of the protection of person and property — arguably the most important service in society.” (08/20/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-dc-takeover-missing-point