Playbook: “Last week’s news cycle — driven by Elon Musk’s jaw-dropping X posts — was deeply uncomfortable for the White House. This week’s focus on law and order and immigration in California feels very different indeed. Whatever your take on Donald Trump’s decision to send in the National Guard — plus, as of last night, 700 Marines — to help quell anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, the view from those close to the president is clear: This is a huge political opportunity, they believe, and Trump has seized it with both hands.
”Said one person close to the White House: “We couldn’t script this any better. Democrats are again on the ‘20’ side of an 80-20 issue… It’s the same thing that won Trump the election.”