back in march 1965 the democratic president → lyndon b. johnson sent his national guard to alabama. why? because the → civil rights protests were harshly supressed by the alabama government. johnson decided to protect demonstrators against police violence. and he did not ask for any cooperation from the state governor → george wallace. wallace’s agenda was „segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever“. he cut the right to vote for most black citizens.

60 years later a similar onset: protests in california. the president sent the national guard to LA to muffle the uproar. he did not talk to the califormia governor. but the political situation is exactly the other way round: while in 1965 the liberal president wanted to protect citizens, in 2025 the rightwing president fights against the protestors – because they demonstrate against his main agenda: the brutal deportation of citizens.