Before his re-election, the US president Donald Trump was already talking about refocusing the military on the “enemy within”, a term he uses interchangeably to describe violent criminals and elected Democrats. “I think the bigger problem,” he told Fox News last October, “are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the – and it should be very easily handled by – if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military ...
“It’s the enemy from within,” he added, “all the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That’s a bigger enemy than China and Russia.”
Fast-forward to this week.
Local officials describe the unwelcome National Guard arriving in Portland and Chicago as an unconstitu
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