Donald Trump has been accused of “turning the military on American citizens” after a Pentagon official confirmed that planning is under way to send National Guard troops to Chicago.
Illinois attorney-general Kwame Raoul also told CBS News that the president’s actions are both “un-American” and “unwise strategically”.
Accusing the president of “turning our military on American citizens in his ongoing attempts to move our nation toward authoritarianism,” he added:
His actions are not just un-American. They are unwise strategically. Our cities are not made safer by deploying the nation’s service members for civilian law enforcement duties when they do not have the appropriate training.
To be clear: We have made no such request for the type of federal intervention we have seen in Los Angeles or Washington DC. There is no emergency in the state of Illinois.
That’s what they’re driving towards, yes. History may say that it’s already started by now.
Historians will be arguing when the 2nd American Civil War started. For some, it was the end of Reconstruction. Others, the Business Plot. Yet closer to now, when the Heritage Foundation was created.
All I know, is that many pieces of shit were allowed to fester.
The failure of the attempt to remove Andrew Johnson after Lincoln’s assassination.
Johnson believed in white supremacy, and he was lenient towards the southern ruling class to keep them in power so that they would suppress the freed slaves*. Leaving the southern elites in power ruined the only chance the U.S. had to overcome the taint of slavery and racism.
Think of the difference:
The traitors from the first civil war may have actually faced consequences for their attempt to destroy the nation in order to keep people enslaved.
A president actually being removed via impeachment would have made the presidency less secure which may have either discouraged some of the behavior presidents have engaged in, or it may have been more likely to have resulted in them being held accountable (of course, I’m thinking of Nixon, Clinton, and Trump).