From Newsmax to Charlie Kirk, outlets and podcasts are calling for ‘hard actions’, arrests and the Insurrection Act
There were unsavory scenes in Los Angeles over the weekend, as police used tear gas and “less-lethal munitions” on thousands of people gathered to protest the arrest of undocumented people immigrants.
The events playing out on rightwing TV channels and in the conservative podcasting realm were almost as miserable, as excitable media figures decried protesters as “invaders”, called for both the mass arrest of elected officials and the invocation of a two-century old laws and used the chaos to push racist conspiracy theories.