It’s a shame that Covid didn’t bring us together. But leadership matters. How you handle the threat matters. There is no guarantee that an external threat will do it, as we see this year.
No I didn’t. I may have argued they chose the wrong thing to impeach him for but I have been entirely consistent during his entire Presidency that he was unfit for the office and should be impeached.
You don’t get why impeachment is so bad for Trump, it is not that he may be removed, but impeachment can also carry the penalty of barring the accused from ever seeking Federal office again.
That is a punishment Trump would mourn more. No more campaigning.
They mobilize the NG for every BLM protest before anything happens? Doubt it. The answer is because this was an unprecedented event. They weren’t expecting it to happen.
One look at the crowd in teh morning, at the goofy military style outfits, and the seething hate filled tone of the rally should have put them on notice.
Well not the national guard but the entire Dover police force was in attendance at the Dover BLM protest this summer. They knew what was coming so they had a show of force.
There have been any number of peaceful protests involving people wearing goofy outfits. Nobody ever stormed the capitol building, not in recent history at any rate. It is going to tremendously expensive to deploy adequate police and or troops to ensure complete control of crowds of that size and bigger on the off chance they get squirrely.