to crack down on the riots. (but only selected riots)
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/20/th ... -on-riots/"...Checkpoints are manned, guardsmen are vetted, and panicked “insurrection” disinformation is bandied about the corporate media like so many sparkles in the wind.
This is what a state of emergency looks like. Except when it isn’t.
This is not what it looked like in the streets of Kenosha, where rioters terrorized residents and business owners for four straight nights. Nor is it what it looked like in the streets of Chicago, where police drew up the bridges to the once-glittering Magnificent Mile.."