There’s an emerging blue-state nightmare: Inspired by President Donald Trump’s call to round up immigrants who are in the country illegally, red-state governors might start sending their National Guard troops into blue states without those leaders’ permission.
Whoever wrote this needs to go back and read Thomas Jefferson or pretty much any history of any collapsing authoritarian regime in history.
They could obey the orders. Or, they could say “lol no”. What’s he going to do, activate their remote-control collars?
The US military, National Guard included, goes through training that heavily emphasizes support for the constitution and what to do about illegal or unconstitutional orders.
It’s actually pretty dangerous to start to bend the knee to an authoritarian despot in this way. By presenting Trump’s illegal bullshit as some kind of pre-ordained structure that other people will have to follow, of course, because that’s the system, they are normalizing it. Even if he were following US law, which he isn’t, they’d have the option to tell him to go fuck himself, and they’d be in some excellent historical company in doing so.
Exactly. People need to move past this mindset that assumes these rules, and traditions, and norms are laws of nature. No, they’re just ideas that people created and no hand of god is going to sweep out of the sky and smite you if you just don’t do them. We need to start acknowledging and participating in the increasingly asymmetrical warfare that Republicans started.
Whoever wrote this needs to go back and read Thomas Jefferson or pretty much any history of any collapsing authoritarian regime in history.
They could obey the orders. Or, they could say “lol no”. What’s he going to do, activate their remote-control collars?
The US military, National Guard included, goes through training that heavily emphasizes support for the constitution and what to do about illegal or unconstitutional orders.
It’s actually pretty dangerous to start to bend the knee to an authoritarian despot in this way. By presenting Trump’s illegal bullshit as some kind of pre-ordained structure that other people will have to follow, of course, because that’s the system, they are normalizing it. Even if he were following US law, which he isn’t, they’d have the option to tell him to go fuck himself, and they’d be in some excellent historical company in doing so.
Exactly. People need to move past this mindset that assumes these rules, and traditions, and norms are laws of nature. No, they’re just ideas that people created and no hand of god is going to sweep out of the sky and smite you if you just don’t do them. We need to start acknowledging and participating in the increasingly asymmetrical warfare that Republicans started.