Trump's troop deployment won't end with the US capital - it's his blueprint for America

WASHINGTON DC – The US President, Donald Trump, has opened a new, explosive salvo in his battle with elected Democrats across the country.

By revoking part of Washington DC ’s right to govern itself and announcing the deployment of National Guard troops to deal with a largely non-existent crimewave in the city, the President made it clear that he planned to take similar actions in other Democratic Party strongholds in the months ahead.

Trump’s description of life in the nation’s capital bears no resemblance whatsoever to the experience of the vast majority of its citizens. He described a city riddled with “crime, bloodshed, bedlam, squalor and worse”, and in cadences redolent of his “American Carnage” inaugural address of January 2017, spoke of a city of “complete and total lawlessness