I have a good friend who left the Army in 2016 because he didn’t want to end up in the position of being deployed against civilians.
At the time I thought it was a tail risk.
@walterolson.bsky.social"This is Donald Trump's attempt to create his own de facto Praetorian Guard," @pgeddington.com, senior fellow at the @cato.org Institute, tells Reason. "These acts by the Trump regime have nothing to do with crime and everything to do with armed, coercive political intimidation and repression."
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Pentagon draws up plans to send troops to American cities
The Trump administration is considering plans for a 'Reaction Force' of National Guard troops to deploy to American cities with signs of civil unrest.