OK everybody, as a subject matter expert via my role as the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) for two decades, I have been just thoroughly inundated in the last day or so by terrified Americans reaching out for answers to their desperate questions about just one thing.
And what is it that has them so horribly frightened?
Trump’s latest vomit projection of psycho idiocy, to wit; scared stiff folks are contacting me to see if it would be either “legal” or even “possible” for Trump to use our U.S. military and National Guard as weapons to seek revenge on his political and, apparently, any other rivals, should he become our next President: Trump suggests using military against 'enemy from within’.
Once and for all, and let me make this PERFECTLY CLEAR:
NO, it would not be remotely legal.
NO, it would not be remotely ethical.
NO, it would not be remotely moral.
YES, it would be 100% totally possible!
But ONLY if the trio of our nation’s Constitutionally-designed judicial, executive, and legislative branches of government and the civil/criminal/administrative regulatory guardrails of our American democracy have been SO fatally compromised as to be utterly useless to deter such promised tyranny.
And that VERY same fatal compromising is PRECISELY what Trump's fundamentalist Christian Nationalism-generated “Project 2025” is ALL about.
This concept is not hard to understand.
Everybody got it ok?
If not, stop here and go back to the top and read it again.