President Donald Trump holds a Bible outside St John's Church across Lafayette Park  AP?

“General George Patton would be proud!,” gushed Nick Adams, an Australian-born conservative commentator who emigrated to America in 2016 and recently published a book, Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization, with a forward by Newt Gingrich.

By portraying himself as America’s “President for Law and Order” Trump has taken a page from Richard Nixon’s 1968 playbook.

Furthermore, Trump may find himself on the wrong side of the 1968 analogy.

The danger for Trump is that his antics today will further alienate moderate conservatives because of his failure to calm the rage now on display throughout the country.

Today we bore witness to exactly the kind of chaos Trump has always strived to create and on which he has thrived.

Until recently, and despite chaos inside the White House, the nation's capital has actually been a serene and lovely place to live, work and visit, at least for those who can afford it.

Donald Trump invoked a 213-year-old "insurrection" law to deploy the US military and "dominate" streets as riots erupted across America for a seventh-straight night.