JD Vance Warns Democrat Governors of Consequences of Letting ‘Rioters Burn’ Cities to the Ground: ‘Going to Send Federal Law Enforcement’

Vice President JD Vance warned Democrat governors that if they allow rioters to “burn great American cities to the ground,” the Trump administration would “send federal law enforcement in to protect the people.”

While speaking from Los Angeles, Vance explained that the “good news” was that the rioting in Los Angeles had “gotten a lot better.” Vance added that he had “heard from everybody” that the soldiers and U.S. Marines who had been deployed to quell the violence of the Los Angeles riots were “still very much a necessary part” of what was happening.

Vance also criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for having “actively encouraged illegal migration,” and accused them of having “strained” law enforcement and public services in the community.

When asked about his reaction to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling that President Donald Trump was allowed to federalize the California National Guard, Vance explained that the Ninth Circuit basically said that federalizing of the National Guard “was a completely legitimate and proper use of federal law enforcement.”

“The President has a very simple proposal, to everybody and every city, every community, every town — whether big or small, if you enforce your own laws, and if you protect federal law enforcement, we’re not going to send in the National Guard because it’s unnecessary,” Vance explained. “But, if you let violent rioters burn great American cities to the ground, then of course we’re going to send federal law enforcement in to protect the people the president was elected to protect.”

It’s one thing to protect Federal officers doing their duty or keeping rioters from attacking Federal offices and Vance would be correct to point that out. It’s quite another to preclude rioters from burning private property or to keep the general peace. What Vance said there is a really bad premise abetting the continuing Federal usurpation of power. In the hands of Democrats, precedents like these WILL be abused.

Where this goes is back to John Roberts in his 2020 failure to address corrupt elections allowing leftist States to steal control of national offices, thus depriving the remaining States of their rights of representation, not to mention the people. Federalism cannot correct crooked ballot counts that protect corrupt local governance from electoral retribution. Else I could say “Let the Democrats burn their cities,” so that the people could see and act upon who and who does not abet that kind of chaos. But without electoral integrity, all bets are off. There is no depth of depravity or illegality these creeps will not go to stay in power to keep the money flowing.

So while I am sympathetic to what JD Vance said here, it is a abetting a Constitutional problem.

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