Hartmann Report - Trump and his neofascist sidekicks sending the National Guard into Los Angeles may look, on the surface, like another “law and order” stunt from a man whose political brand depends on hate and fear. But beneath the posturing lies something far darker and far more dangerous to American democracy.
This is not even remotely about suppressing unrest. Instead, it’s about setting an unconstitutional, anti-democratic precedent: that the President of the United States can deploy military force on a whim, against his political enemies, without state or local consent.
It’s about turning a democratic republic into an authoritarian stronghold. It’s about ending federalism — what political scientists and our Founders called our form of government — as we know it.
This is a test and a dress rehearsal. If he gets away with it, he will probably use this exact same formula — create a crisis worthy of television, bring in the feds, declare a state of emergency — to accomplish what he really wants to do.....
Let’s be clear: sending the National Guard into Los Angeles, especially when done over the objections of California’s governor and L.A.’s mayor, is a direct assault on one of the foundational principles of American democracy: local control.
This is the classic blueprint for dictatorship — using federal military power to override the will of elected local leaders — and it reflects the way fascism has begun in nearly every nation that has lost their democracy over the past century.
MSNBC - Last year, while serving as South Dakota’s Republican governor, Homeland
Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that if President Joe Biden tried
to federalize National Guard troops, it would constitute a
“direct attack on states’ rights” and spark a “war” between Washington
and GOP-led state governments. Over the weekend, however, Noem took the opposite position.
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