President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the rarely used federal law to deploy the U.S. military or federalize the National Guard for domestic law enforcement, over the objections of state governors.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the rarely used federal law to deploy the U.S. military or federalize the National Guard for domestic law enforcement, over the objections of state governors.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Honestly, I wonder what is keeping them back? Public opinion? Some surprisingly resistant remnant of checks’n’balances?

    MAGA has been building up to & drooling over this final chapter for… IDK, ever since Jan 2025 I guess.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      They don’t have the military, or rather the critical mass of support within the military that it would take to ensure the new fascist regime’s power.

      History proves that, unequivocally, there is NEVER a successful coup without either the tacit or overt support of the military and the secure understanding that if the ruling power wants boots on the ground willing to fight their fellow countrymen, that will happen.

      He does NOT have this, but he’s decided to call for it and see if it sticks anyway. He’s speedrunning this on steroids because he knows it’s now or never.

      • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 day ago

        What evidence do you have that he does that’s this? Most military people I know support Trump. I have to assume the leadership in the military has been gutted like the IRS, FBI, etc.

        I have zero reason to believe the military isn’t in lock step.

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 day ago

          The military is not the FBI or the (well gutted) IRS, it is a worldwide operation with bipartisan leadership that has come up through the ranks. He’s come after dissenters at the top, general rank, but I haven’t heard of much going on lower than that. In reality the relatively short length of time involved and the vast scope of necessary purging that would be required to remake the military like other government offices suggest that it’s just not possible, and instead of hearing about turnover in military leadership what we’re hearing in the news is stagnation, and at one point approvals for promotions were not even being processed at all.

          I don’t know what military people you personally know, or when the last time you asked what their level of support was, but not only is the military full of men and women who have never fired upon their own countrymen, it is full of brown and black people who are now seeing with their own eyes that US citizens who look exactly like they do are being scooped up right along with the undesirables.

          I think you forget that he has already declared the Insurrection Act in multiple instances to post the National Guard, such as in LA, and gotten shot down by the courts. And let’s not forget that he was talking about invoking full martial law before the inauguration. He wanted to have this done by last spring, yet it’s not. It’s not even near, because judges have already thrown the National Guard out of Portland and Chicago, and even more suits are in the works.

          To be clear, believe what you want. I do not care about changing your mind. If your own evidence comes down to “you know people” then by all means rely on that. But I do not believe the wider facts support that conclusion at this time.