Could Donald Trump call out the U.S. Army again, after losing the November election? By Ryan O’Connell, June 10, 2020
U.S. democracy remains in great danger. For the moment, President Donald Trump has yielded to public opinion and agreed to pull active-duty Army troops out of our nation’s capital.
Was this a trial run?
But what if his decision to deploy soldiers against American civilians was a dress rehearsal, a trial run for “dominating the streets” if he loses the election in November?
From the onset of the protests, Trump has followed the classic playbook of a would-be dictator, not a democratic leader. Trump barely acknowledged the legitimacy of the protests against police brutality and discrimination toward minorities.
Without offering any proof, the President blamed the rioting and looting on “Antifa and the Radical Left.” As that playbook would have it, Trump quickly announced that he was labeling Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”
The Antifa
However, that was mere propaganda and yet another sign of Trump’s cavalier attitude toward the law. In fact, Antifa is a rather nebulous movement, not an organization.