These Six Republican Governors Should Take Back the National Guard Troops They Sent to Washington, D.C.

These Six Republican Governors Should Take Back the National Guard Troops They Sent to Washington, D.C.

First in Los Angeles, now in Washington, D.C., and next maybe in your community, Donald Trump is weaponizing law enforcement and military force against the American people. Trump is trying to intimidate us into subservience, and he is laying the groundwork to commit violence in furtherance of his authoritarian fantasies. This — and this alone — is the reason for the deployment of National Guard troops in and the military occupation of our nation’s capital.


To Governor Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi, Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio, Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, and Governor Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia

You are disrespecting and exploiting your own National Guard troops and the people of Washington, D.C., to grovel at Donald Trump’s feet and to score cheap “culture war” points on Fox News. And you are shamelessly throwing in with Trump’s authoritarian project. The people of Washington, D.C., did not elect you. They did not ask you to send armed military personnel who belong in their home states. And, by overwhelming numbers, they do not want your National Guard troops here. Take your troops back and mind your own damn business.

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