Conservatives Love Limited Gov't. And Aggressive Policing

As protests continue nationwide, many conservative commentators and organizations have pushed a pro-police, law-and-order narrative. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) declared, “The president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support local law enforcement and ensure this violence ends tonight.” (President Trump later threatened to do just that.) Fox News asked whether the New York Police Department “did enough? Did they go far enough?” The talk radio host Buck Sexton claimed, “This isn’t going to stop until the good guys are willing to use overwhelming force against the bad guys.” Trump himself tweeted, “Let New York’s Finest be New York’s Finest. There is nobody better, but they must be allowed to do their job!”