In the coming days and weeks, everything is possible, but it is difficult not to feel that we are striving for escalation of violence.
Members of the National Guard are held at the National Mall on August 14, 2025 in Washington, after the deployment of President Donald Trump federal forces and the absorption of the city police department.
(Mehmet Socialist / Middle East Images via AFP)
What exactly does Donald Trump with 800 National Guard soldiers, as well as ice officers, drug bodies and US police officers, he launched for patrolling Washington streets, Colombia, almost two weeks ago? The Prosecutor General Bondi boasts that on Saturday night they arrested 68 people but the capital police department an average of 68 arrests a day. In less than two weeks, Bondi claims, they have Arrested 300 people on charges, from drugs to traffic violations. But based on daily average, MPD would carry out almost 900 arrests on its own during the same period.
Although Trump justified his steps, citing the alleged escalation of the area-affinity of all sorts of actually declining in Washington-in the best case or worse, they do not carry out law and order any of the district with a high level of crime,– Residents complain. I say it may be better, because if they descended to anacoustia or other excessive police areas, they are likely to be criminal and harshly overcome. Remember that these troops did not prepare for the city police (not that such training always hinders hard behavior). But it is also a pretty bizarre when Trump’s true focus was the decline in crimes. But this is not the case. This is intimidation.
Trump troops are mainly manifested in tourist and live quarters, in which the farce show is heavily. They write people for public drinking, weed smoking and broken lantern. They managed to cut Business in bars and restaurants Almost the third compared to the same period in August 2024. So much for the GoP business.
Although there was still a waste of federal resources, GoP leaders help escalation tensions in DC. Last weekend governors of the Republicans South Carolina, Western Virginia and Ohio promised to send Up to 750 National Guard soldiers in the country’s capital. Some Red State Governors briefly launched the troops of the Trump National Guard, during George Floida’s large -scale but peaceful protests in June 2020, but the news was mostly flying under the radars. This time Trump wants the headlines about the invasion of red. (As I write, Mississippi announced that he would send 200 soldiers. Good Miss. Now may be armed.
The Civil War began the separation of South Carolina and the attack on the federal forces into the fort, which not one observer on social media noted that the Fort -Samer was the department of the South Carolina and the attack on federal forces in the Fort -Samiter. It should also be remembered that it was in 1970 that the Ohio National Guard troops were killed, who fired on peaceful students in Kent, killed four.
I think a lot about the concept of writer Jeff Sharlet “A slow civil war“The US solving, especially after the January 6 uprising. On the blues He wrote: “I will say armed troops from the Red States descending through the blue city – it is just a few centimeters – and maybe one exchange of shooting is the decorative stage of the opening of the Civil War.”
Anjali DayalProfessor of International Politics at Fordham University, accepted the question with the mail Charlet – at least she read it: “I respect Jeff’s work, but we must be careful in what we predict and how inevitable is that we seem. Extremely Armed Civil Society. “
In the e -mail, Charlet made it clear that he essentially agrees with Daal. The civil war is not “inevitable,” he said, “I agree that the” mass event of the loss “is the next great risk, and that” gray and blue “do not risk, but I would claim that in the slow war, what we see, our years of conduct are the American slow civil war.”
Of course, the addition of 1000 troops of the National Guard of the Red Status to 800, which are already in the DC, all unprepared in the city police, causes a chance for a “massive loss” at least. Earlier, we said that people who described the hold as “fascism” were exaggerated, although even in the main media regularly use the word F. Now we should talk with care about the “civil war”. But they are moving through the Trump capital and his red -haired associates, similar to the acceleration of the danger to democracy, designed to familiarize the Americans with the appearance of federal forces patrolling blue American cities, as Trump said.
Add the dangers presenting armed right civilians and militias along with almost almost 1600 January 6 is released From prison or jail Trump on the day of inauguration, and feels that we headed for the escalation of violence.
At this point, the crisis we need the only, progressive opposition to Donald Trump.
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