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How Trump Is Laying The Groundwork For A Coopted Military, Now And In 2025
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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The crux of your argument is:
They were legally in the right to allow a violent tyrant to lead an insurrection and attempt to murder the only people who could uphold the Constitution and get him out of office at the end of his term
They thought hard about if they will do that again.
None of which does anything to support the narrative of
If you want me to add a bunch of "hash tag, support the troops" in my condemnation of them supporting a violent insurrection against the US Government then sure. I don't want that smoke. But you have no point beyond that.
Because the only difference between our arguments is you are deciding they were heroes for actively not protecting the VPOTUS, Speaker of the House, or the rest of Congress and instead relying on the courage of police officers which... jesus christ how do we still have a country?