June 13, 2025
The fastest way to become a fascist is to politicize the military.
“No necklaces” became a powerful cohesive cry in the second term Donald Trump. On Saturday, Participants of the action in hundreds of American cities They will gather under the banner “without kings” to offer a meeting to the president who uses the coincidence of the day of the flag that falls on birthday to throw a massive military parade to satisfy his ego. The “without kings” appeal as a message is obvious: it causes a noble small republican spirit of the American revolution and reproaches Trump’s autocratic claim.
But although “without kings” is resonant and popular, it may be more analytical to say “no military commanders”. In the end, the necklace relies on their own force on some claim (although false) on a dreaming tradition of legitimacy. The abuse of Trump’s power is more rude, based on nothing more than his statement that, as the president, he will be able to order anyone in the government (including law enforcement agencies and military) without checking the judiciary or congress. It is not a tsarist force that, even in its absolutist form, was connected with the tradition and concessions to a powerful nobleman, but something closer to the driving of a military commander whose head must be fulfilled.
The fact that Trump is a warlord, clearly from the way he tried to destroy the tradition of preserving military depoliticized. In the last few weeks, Trump has taken a number of actions – speaking from Fort -Bregg’s speech to send troops to stop protesters in the Los -Andeles – which makes it clear that he wants the military to be subordinated to himself.
The Trump project on the submission of the military is the main thing in its authoritarianism. Wiseers and historians who are Skeptical of the lawsuit The fact that Trump is a fascist threat often indicates that he has no mobilized mass movement of classical fascist dictators: proud boys can annoy the horses, but they are unlikely to measure Benita Mussolini or the brown shirts of Adolf Hitler. The attack on the Capitol on January 6 became a serious attempt to disrupt democracy, but it also caught holding up when the Capitol police with the support of the National Guard restored the order. The Maga movement, as is the era of social media, is more about passive viewers than about street battles.
But despite the restrictions on the magic as a mass movement, Trump has always had a clear path to managing the fascist style. If Trump was able to overcome the traditional taboo against the politicization of the military, he could then destroy democracy. Instead of black shirts, Trump could just command the Magic military personnel. He could also do the same with the federal law enforcement agencies, giving him a stack.
In the first term, Trump came an important moment of danger when Trump wanted to use the military to defeat the participants of the action, angry with George Floida’s murder. As I noted at the timeThis was the most clear example of Trump’s authoritarianism and the fact that Military leaders resisted Trump’s attempt to use them as political instruments has helped save US democracy at the time of maximum danger.
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With Trump’s second term, he clearly makes efforts to lead to any military resistance. On Tuesday, he made a speech to Fort -Bregg, which crashed with tradition, being very guerrilla. Turning to the troops, Trump – Note“In the Los -Andgeles Governor California, Mayor Los -Angeles, they are incompetent, and they paid the offenders, agitators and rebels. They participate in this intentional attempt to repeal the federal law and help the city’s criminal invaders.”
Anxiously, some soldiers were browned by Trump’s investment. But as a new site Hliary.com disclosedThese applause was also a form of political manipulations as the troops in the audience were checked for their beliefs:
The domestic 82th Air Divisional Communication, considered by wismal.com, reveal a tightly organized effort to treat Trump’s recent visit, including soldiers for viewers based on political preferences and physical appearance. After all, the troops were elected behind Trump and visible cameras were almost exclusively men.
One message at the unit level directly said, “No fat soldiers.”
Fort Trump’s performance was organized by the use of the military as political support. Trump’s goods were even sold in the database. As The New York Times notesThis speech “was only the most recent in a number of high -profile efforts to reshuff the military more in its similarity.”
A Term Provides a bright catalog of Trump’s troops:
Started with the decision justify Within their initiative against diversity, justice and inclusion. He continued his determination to restore and pay former members of the service who were discharged after the vaccination vaccination vaccination vaccination. And it was at a full exhibition when he sent active troops to create military zones along the US border with Mexico.
But this week, this is the best shown by the decision of Mr. Trump to deploy about 4,000 troops of the National Guard and 700 Marines on the streets of Los -Andgeles after the protests over his immigration policy began. The president now directs US forces directly against US citizens, most of whom are not violent and simply angry with the Trump administration.
At the hearing at Congress on Thursday the representative of Ra Hana shut Defense Secretary Pitt Hugset, when the administration respects the Supreme Court’s decision, which announced the deployment of troops in the Los -Angeles illegal. Having violated, Gegset repeatedly refused to claim that he would follow the law. It is also an example of how the tradition of the military, which are restrained by the Constitution, is replaced by a military commander.
In addition to the dangers of the dictatorship, Trump’s politicization also harms military morality. On Thursday, The Guardian report“The California troops of national guards and marine infantrymen located in the Los -Andgeles to help restore the order after the protest against the Trump administration, told friends and family members that they are deeply dissatisfied with the task and worry that their only significant role would be in the political battle.”
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Trump makes a curious type of warlord. Unlike the great military despots of the past – from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan – Trump has never been a soldier himself. He is sad avoided the project During the war in Venom. In 1997 he – Note Avoiding the STD, if being lonely, was his “personal Vietnam”. In 2015 Trump – Note About Senator John McCain that “he is not a hero of war. He is a war hero because he is passionate. I like people who were not captured.” Trump’s associations, including former senior White House Advisers, Report that in private He refers to soldiers who die in the war as “lost” and “suckers”. (Trump denies making these comments.)
But Trump should not respect the troops to be the commander -in -chief, and he has no great respect for the soldiers to run as a military commander.
Trump’s war is just an exaggerated version of the sustainable American problem dating from World War II: the imperial presidency. As the power in the White House is increasingly centralized, the president enjoys uncontrolled authority, which is closer to autocrat than a statesman in democracy. With the invention of nuclear weapons American presidents became thermo -guns monarchs With the power of life and death for billion. Since the mass movement merges to resist the autocracy and military military action of Trump, he will have to resist not only the lawlessness of one person, but also the constitutional crisis created by the imperial presidency.
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