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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Using Federal Troops

Someone posted a long screed on our local e-newspaper here claiming that Trump's threat of sending in federal troops to quell the recent riots was not just awful but also patently unconstitutional. I posted the folloiung rebuttal:

"In September 1957, nine black students enrolled at a high school in Arkansas. On the first day of school, the governor barred them from attending by calling in the national guard. The President sent in federal troops to ensure order and enforce Constitutional rights.
In 2020, many state governors refused to enforce the law and chaos resulted. Some governors brought in national guard troops and quietly ordered them not to enforce the law. Sound a little familiar?
If Eisenhower were President he would have once again sent in federal troops. Hatred of Donald Trump does not change the situation."

1 comment:

  1. Yesterday, the author of the screed published a tortured rebuttal to my comment. As expected, the author distinguished the two situations as being one that was good and one that was bad. There was no logic other than that. No surprise.

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