During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S. soil.
He has pledged to recall thousands of American troops from overseas and station them at the U.S. border with Mexico. He has explored using troops for domestic policy priorities such as deportations and confronting civil unrest. He has talked of weeding out military officers who are ideologically opposed to him.
“They are promising to use the military to do mass raids of American families at a scale that harkens back to some of the worst things our country has done,” said Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, an immigration advocacy organization.
Which way will military go in the event of violence?
Technically, they should refuse illegal or treasonous orders at any point in the chain of command. The military is not a monolith, so I imagine a mixed bag.
The people in interracial marriages and people with gay/trans kids will definitely fight back. I feel when you’re fighting for someone concrete it’d be a lot different than fighting for ideals. I don’t think many conservatives are ready to die for the right of the wealthy to subjugate us.
I doubt that. They are all voting for the face eating leopard, thinking it won’t eat their face.