They’re not moving into Mexico. They’re moving onto US land, displacing the civilian authorities.
He’s really digging around in the American system for elements that are explicitly loyal to him, not to the law, and trying to put them in charge. He found one in ICE. He’s trying to remake the overall federal government to be that, instead, and to some extent he’ll succeed but I think mostly he will just break it and make it a laughable dysfunctional band of idiots, instead of molding it to be the way he wants it.
I think he thinks that the military is going to be easy to mold into another instance of that, and I think there will be some small success, but I think the more likely result for most of the military is just that they’ll think it’s bullshit and it’ll motivate them to resent and resist him as his orders start to get more and more illegal. I could be wrong, but that’s what I think.
The USA military is literally the largest, most ethnically mixed, DEI enabled organization on the planet. One can spot a bunch of off duty army people by spotting how diverse they are.
The military does run conservative and they do war crimes in many countries every decade; but they, or at least huge elements of it, are going to shock many who think that military will be agreeable to being used in certain ways.
There will be some assholes and a bit of slack while things progress, then a wall of uncooperation. It will be amazing how units simply cannot move or follow orders later.
They’re not moving into Mexico. They’re moving onto US land, displacing the civilian authorities.
He’s really digging around in the American system for elements that are explicitly loyal to him, not to the law, and trying to put them in charge. He found one in ICE. He’s trying to remake the overall federal government to be that, instead, and to some extent he’ll succeed but I think mostly he will just break it and make it a laughable dysfunctional band of idiots, instead of molding it to be the way he wants it.
I think he thinks that the military is going to be easy to mold into another instance of that, and I think there will be some small success, but I think the more likely result for most of the military is just that they’ll think it’s bullshit and it’ll motivate them to resent and resist him as his orders start to get more and more illegal. I could be wrong, but that’s what I think.
The USA military is literally the largest, most ethnically mixed, DEI enabled organization on the planet. One can spot a bunch of off duty army people by spotting how diverse they are.
The military does run conservative and they do war crimes in many countries every decade; but they, or at least huge elements of it, are going to shock many who think that military will be agreeable to being used in certain ways.
There will be some assholes and a bit of slack while things progress, then a wall of uncooperation. It will be amazing how units simply cannot move or follow orders later.
I think many people would be surprised at how seriously the more conservative members take that promise to defend the constitution.