Trump’s Threats to Unleash Troops in Cities Darken as Brutal Poll Hits

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Emboldened by a partial court victory over his use of troops amid immigration protests in Los Angeles, President Trump is now threatening to expand deployment to other cities. This is unnerving, given that his manufacturing of fake rationales for “emergency” decisions like these is getting worse. Yet it comes as striking new polling shows that Trump’s use of troops in California is deeply underwater with voters. Importantly, he’s faring even worse on this with independents. In short, Trump recognizes zero constraints at this point, either from the law or, critically, from public opinion. We talked to Brian Beutler, author of the excellent Off Message Substack. He explains why Trump is losing the voters on two issues that pundits foolishly predicted he’d win on—the domestic deployment of troops and immigration—and how Democrats should respond by fighting a better information war than they currently seem capable of waging. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.4	President Donald Trump thinks he's winning the political battle over his hyper-militarized response to the protests in Los Angeles.
1:12.1	Emboldened by a court ruling partly in his favor, he's now threatening to expand his use of the National Guard and the military to other cities.
1:18.1	And yet, by most available metrics, Trump is actually losing that fight in the battle for the hearts and minds of the public, which has put us in an unsettling situation.
1:23.3	Though Trump has lost a lot in the courts, to some degree at least, they're giving Trump the
1:27.7	impression that he's got free reign on the domestic deployment of troops.
1:32.1	Yet at the same time, he refuses to acknowledge any constraint on him imposed by public opinion
1:38.3	turning against his deployment.
1:41.3	That seems like a combustible combination.
1:44.3	And to sort it out, today we're talking with Brian Boytler, who just argued on his
1:48.0	substack, off message, that moments like these call for liberals and Democrats to fight a better
1:53.3	information war than they currently seem capable of fighting.
1:57.4	Brian, always good to see you, man.
1:59.6	It's good to be with you.
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