A lot of attention is paid to the crime-infested urban cores where some great American cities — New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Baltimore — used to be. But not enough attention is paid to my blighted hometown: Los Angeles, California. 

The violence and mayhem that took over downtown Los Angeles last week has finally ceased. The reason was pretty simple: a show of federal force. President Trump sent the National Guard to stand in front of the federal buildings and federal immigrant detention centers, which were under attack. The craven and evil people who are running southern California (straight into the ground) shrieked about the military presence, but the wall of soldiers actually helped calm the violence — without firing a shot. The presence of soldiers supporting the police — after many of them were subject to attempted murder by the Latinx mobs sicced on them by idiot Mayor Karen Bass — boosts morale. It let them know that the country is behind them, even though the city’s leadership can barely lift a finger to protect its own officers.

As soon as the first group of immigration “protestors” started pelting the police with huge chunks of concrete and burning those cute little Waymo cars that never hurt anybody, Mayor Bass started blaming Trump for causing “chaos.” Excuse me? You mean, the chaos you and your party caused by opening the borders in the first place? She used the word “chaos” over and over to describe ICE nabbing a few illegals. She totally ignored the actual chaos until Day Three, when she was finally forced to condemn the violence committed by a few “bad actors,” as she keeps calling them.

Mayor Bass, I haven’t seen this many “bad actors” in one place since I watched the Oscars.