Trump is colluding with republican governors and their military to force their political agenda on Democratic states
___Texas' republican governor agreed with the republican president this week to commit troops to Illinois against their wishes or need, and ostensibly, to 'carry out the president's orders'; this seemingly illegal imposition of troops happening at the same time as Trump is threatening to jail the Democratic governor and mayor.
This is basically one state warring against another with the full weight and authority of the federal government behind them. It's a perversely reverse Civil War.
After the Civil War, the Reconstruction Act of 1867 placed Southern governments under military rule. The South was divided into five military districts, each run by a general in the U.S. Army. The five districts were Virginia; North and South Carolina; Georgia, Alabama, and Florida; Mississippi and Arkansas; and Texas and Louisiana. Tennessee was the only prior Confederate state that was not placed under military rule because Tennessee had many Union supporters during the war. Around 200,000 troops were placed in the South to enforce military rule.
What I'm waiting for is the realization by these republican majority states, that a Democratic president could find any number of reasons to invade and occupy southern and red cities under the same pretext that republicans manage to get away with, with the goal of defending American rights like protecting the vote; protecting access to reproductive health; protecting those exercising their right to protest.
The precedent being set by Trump's political exercise of his assumed authority to deploy troops against Americans should be a wake up call to republicans who believe their states are safe from executive government unilaterally revisiting and revising the abusive and repressive laws they pass; laws and regulations which a Democratic president might not agree with and seek to halt or control using the force of our nation's military troops to either intimidate or impede state actions.
Republicans are simply allowing Trump to pave a roadmap for Democrats to advantage in nullifying any power or authority a republican majority acting today might assume will be the law of the land tomorrow; yet undermined when their political opposition assumes and exercises power exclusively on behalf of their own party and their own prerogatives.
They're getting their cheap thrills today, with hell to pay tomorrow. They are threatening democracy, itself, so it should stand to reason for them that their future out-of-power holds nothing but the righteousness of Democrats and Americans advantaging those same levers of control republicans are allowing Trump to use today, wielding those same autocratic allowances in the effort to restore the nation back to where this convicted felon and his republicans enablers took over and began dismantling the entire 20th century of American legislative and social progress.
“I want that to sit in right now,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Oct. 6. “...the President of the United States of America has declared war on the people of Chicago and people across America.”
This republican president is enlisting republican governors and their state's military forces to conduct what Trump himself characterized as a 'war against the enemy within' inside of our nation's states, cities, communities, and neighborhoods.
Just days ago Trump was railing against what he termed an 'enemy within' in front of generals who must have been wondering how all of his ranting could possibly reconcile with all of their own schooling, study, and practice about the constitutionally limited role of our military within the U.S..
Generals who would ostensibly command troops against an American city had to be asking themselves whether any such mission was now compromised by the president's politically-charged directive intending their forces to be deployed against what are this president's political 'enemies,' in the cities he ticked off to the generals like they were hostile military targets.
"It seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places, and we're going to straighten them out one by one," the president asserted. "And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war too. It's a war from within."
Our nation's military is bestowed to the nation by the Constitution and our contributions as a defense not an imposition; indeed, that's why every American military officer swears an oath that begins with ten critical words: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” not retribution and repression ordered by the president against his perceived political enemies.
These new alliances between this republican president wielding authority as commander-in-chief are employing military troops provided by republican state governors to wage war against citizens in states where residents have voted for Democratic leaders and legislators to have primary responsibility for their security and defense needs; not troops unfamiliar or unconcerned with state laws, regulations, or the expectations of the occupied citizenry of fair treatment under their own state's laws and initiatives.
Texas and the Trump WH are colluding together against a Democratic state and city, and we should all be wondering just what this new unholy alliance of a republicans states advantaging the resources and authority of the federal government to impose their political agenda, by military force, against a Democratic one will try to impose what on who next.
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