Anxiety took hold of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and she took an action that is, quite literally, insane.

“I’m not here today to talk to you about numbers and tell you stats and statistics about what’s going up and what's going down. I’m here to take action,” Hochul said in her surprise announcement on Wednesday deploying 750 heavily armed National Guard members to search riders’ bags before they go through the turnstiles inside of New York City’s 472-station, 665-mile train system used by nearly 2.5 million people a day.

Don’t you love farce? Tom Cotton does! (You may recall a certain New York Times op-ed—penned in summer 2020 by the Arkansas senator—that called for National Guard troops to quell riots caused a bit of a commotion.)

Hochul’s public safety anthem is “Send in the Troops,” to the tune of “Send in the Clowns.”

The goal, Hochul........

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