In this episode of "Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Riddle"...

Leave it to "The Atlantic" senior editor David Frum, who's also a commentator for MSNBC, to publish a ridiculous tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory — not based on fact, but only on speculation within Frum's TDS-riddled imagination.

In "For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal," Frum proudly pontificates about his comical theory that President Donald Trump called out the National Guard in response to anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles to prepare for... wait for it... a military takeover of the 2026 midterms.

Yup, according to Frum, Trump deployed the National Guard to quell the riots as a grand rehearsal for a military seizure in '26, a theory wholly fueled by his TDS delirium.

What you saw from Trump in CA this weekend was not law enforcement.

What you saw was a test of ways and means for Trump to disrupt and pervert the 2026 elections.

My latest in @theAtlantic https://t.co/fKS7lxMuGf

— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 8, 2025

Again, can't make it up; don't have to. Here's Mr. Frum, in all of his delusional glory:

Yesterday, President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to quell disorderly protests against immigration-enforcement personnel in Los Angeles. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared his readiness to obey Trump by mobilizing the U.S. Marines as well. 

These threats look theatrical and pointless. The state, counties, and cities of California employ more than 75,000 uniformed law-enforcement personnel with arrest powers. The Los Angeles Police Department alone numbers nearly 9,000 uniformed officers. They can surely handle some dozens of agitators throwing rocks, shooting fireworks, and impeding vehicular traffic.

Sure, David. Not to disparage California law enforcement personnel, but how has their "handling" of the violence ("peace protests") turned out, so far?

Frum smugly continued:

If and when those 75,000 uniformed personnel feel overmatched by the agitators, California can request federal help of its own volition. When California has asked for needed federal help—during the wildfires earlier this year, for example—Trump has begrudged that help and played politics with it. Trump is now forcing help that the city and state do not need and do not want, not to restore law but to assert his personal dominance over the normal procedures to enforce the law.

Uh-huh, David. How have radical left-wing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin "Hey, everybody, I'm running for president in 2028!" Newsom reacted to the riots so far?

Here's Frum's money shot — including an implementation strategy that exists only in his head:

But if the Trump-Hegseth threats have little purpose as law enforcement, they signify great purpose as political strategy. 

Scaremongering. Who knew?

Frum's article grew even more delusional, the longer it got. Check it out:

Since Trump’s reelection, close observers of his presidency have feared a specific sequence of events that could play out ahead of midterm voting in 2026:

Step 1: Use federal powers in ways to provoke some kind of made-for-TV disturbance—flames, smoke, loud noises, waving of foreign flags.

Step 2: Invoke the disturbance to declare a state of emergency and deploy federal troops.

Step 3: Seize control of local operations of government—policing in June 2025; voting in November 2026.

Just ask yourself: 

How many times have we read or heard from the left over the years about Trump planning to suspend the U.S. Constitution, cancel elections, toss his "enemies" in what amount to "reeducation camps," and create "constitutional crisis" after "constitutional crisis?" I can't count that high.

Now ask: How many of those things has Trump done? I got this — the answer is zero.

Moreover — and ironic to the max — how many times has the left resorted to violence, including the George Floyd-BLM (Black Lives Matter) riots across America, anti-semitic, pro-Hamas protests, attacks against Jewish Americans (including murders), and the assassination of the CEO of a major healthcare insurer? 

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I'll end with an arrogant October 2020 Frum post to X:

The people on far right and far left who publicized the obviously bogus @nypost story were not dupes. They were accomplices. The story could not have been more obviously fake if it had been wearing dollar-store spectacles and attached plastic mustache.

How'd that age, Mr. Frum?

The people on far right and far left who publicized the obviously bogus @nypost story were not dupes. They were accomplices. The story could not have been more obviously fake if it had been wearing dollar-store spectacles and attached plastic mustache.

— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 18, 2020

Speaking of spectacles, Frum remains among the most arrogant fools of Democrat elitists.

Editor's Note: President Trump isn't going to allow lawlessness to reign in America. We will not have a repeat of 2020's "Summer of Love."

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