Zoologists are correct about the host-parasite relationship, and Trump critics are correct in reporting the DC crime has actually been down, not up.

Yet, Trump is true to form.  Reacting as a statist leader (and real estate developer) to a crime committed against a person he knows personally, Trump deployed the National Guard to assist with cleaning up the town. Congress, the deep state, and possibly the courts will go along with this use of, and show of, force not because it is necessary or constitutional, but because it is good for them politically and materially, and because it sets one more useful precedent for federal power.  It's truly a win-win for them.

"Bill Balls" Coristine lived up to his nickname on August 3rd.  Trump, however, has long shown his proclivity to use of the state's military/law enforcement activities in a variety of domestic roles – mainly under the wholly contrived Department of Homeland Security, now almost 25 years old.  In this way, if not in others, Trump is an echo of Bill Clinton – happy to lie, cheat and steal in order to present the state as all-powerful against people it expects to stand down, shut up, comply and kneel.  The abuse of law, and murder of men, women and children, and the government coverup afterwards in Waco is well documented in the 1997 documentary "Rules of Engagement." Yet even today, we see concentrated and renewed efforts by state-friendly media to justify all state actions, to bless state crime, to condemn the victims who "caused it to happen."

Trump is oriented to increasing and utilizing federal force, both military and economic, to protect Americans – their lives, their conditions, their economy.  Rather than a philosopher who thinks about how things should be – is man to be self-governed? should the state be limited? is war immoral? –Trump is a technician who assesses the "problem" with the "unit" and seeks to repair or replace it.  Dave Chappelle was dead on.

Like Bill Clinton, and Hillary as Secretary of State under Obama, Trump seeks to leverage power and threats of power, to seek or enforce what the state calls "peace."  As with the Clintons, peace is just a condition from which to profit, and if the peace is not profitable, then perhaps a regime change or a bombing or a trade war will serve just as well.