If the military decides to support tyranny (strong man rule), it's game over for democracy in any case. So yours is a different argument contextually. I don't disagree but I assume that more patriotic heads will prevail if a Trump or Trump wannabe attains the WH again and asks the military to enforce illegal orders against citizens or institutions.
If the military decides to support tyranny (strong man rule), it's game over for democracy in any case. So yours is a different argument contextually. I don't disagree but I assume that more patriotic heads will prevail if a Trump or Trump wannabe attains the WH again and asks the military to enforce illegal orders against citizens or institutions.
Well, I do on day 1. But after the purges and key replacements, plenty of orders will be perfectly legal. And they likely won't go to the military at first. But if and when someone starts resisting Trump's newly created Federal Security Bureau...well that'd be armed insurrection, amirite?
The military oath is to the Constitution, not the presidency. Plenty of those orders will be unconstitutional as Milly so rightly feared. The jury is definitely out on the military's readiness to respond to an authoritarian like Trump.
And when Michael Flynn holds Milly's job? The day one orders won't be blatantly unconstitutional, but they'll stretch there...
And yeah, the jury's out on how the military will respond, but I'm not holding my breath. As I said, when some group resists some government agency, we'll have armed insurrection on our hands, and that will make quite a lot 'legal' especially for one of those open-ended emergencies we like to have.
We may however get lucky with Trump being too stupid to actually be effective at it.
Technically it is quite the pickle we would be in if he wins.
Though we could also bet on cheeseburger and the hope that his VP, while likely terrible, doesn't want to go down in history as the actual author of American Democracy's destruction. And for as easily ridiculed as that faint hope would be, it also isn't nothing.
If the military decides to support tyranny (strong man rule), it's game over for democracy in any case. So yours is a different argument contextually. I don't disagree but I assume that more patriotic heads will prevail if a Trump or Trump wannabe attains the WH again and asks the military to enforce illegal orders against citizens or institutions.
I don't assume that at all.
Well, I do on day 1. But after the purges and key replacements, plenty of orders will be perfectly legal. And they likely won't go to the military at first. But if and when someone starts resisting Trump's newly created Federal Security Bureau...well that'd be armed insurrection, amirite?
The military oath is to the Constitution, not the presidency. Plenty of those orders will be unconstitutional as Milly so rightly feared. The jury is definitely out on the military's readiness to respond to an authoritarian like Trump.
And when Michael Flynn holds Milly's job? The day one orders won't be blatantly unconstitutional, but they'll stretch there...
And yeah, the jury's out on how the military will respond, but I'm not holding my breath. As I said, when some group resists some government agency, we'll have armed insurrection on our hands, and that will make quite a lot 'legal' especially for one of those open-ended emergencies we like to have.
We may however get lucky with Trump being too stupid to actually be effective at it.
This is quite the pickle we are in if we have to bet on stupidity to save the day.
Technically it is quite the pickle we would be in if he wins.
Though we could also bet on cheeseburger and the hope that his VP, while likely terrible, doesn't want to go down in history as the actual author of American Democracy's destruction. And for as easily ridiculed as that faint hope would be, it also isn't nothing.