As president, Trump sought to use military planes and bases for deportation. Now, he and his allies are talking about a new effort that current and former officials warn could be impractical and dangerous.

In particular, there is call for starting a civil war:

Miller also suggested using National Guard troops, state police and other federal law enforcement agencies as force multipliers, even sending National Guard troops from Republican-led states into neighboring states governed by Democrats. “If you’re going to go into an unfriendly state like Maryland, well, they would just be Virginia doing the arrest in Maryland,” he said in the November podcast interview.

    • @[email protected]
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      177 months ago

      Because the people in charge of enforcing and interpreting the law are ideologically aligned with him.

    • @not_that_guy05
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      97 months ago

      Because we are still a democratic state and not an authoritarian state, yet.

      I mean Carlson is already feeding them propaganda on how the country would be if it was like Russia. Such a wonderful, low cost country with amazing bread.

      The price of democracy includes traitors, unfortunately.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        87 months ago

        We actually have a constitutional amendment barring insurrectionists like him from being President, but the Supreme Court is likely to side with him because most of the justices want a far right dictatorship.

        • @not_that_guy05
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          47 months ago

          So it stands including traitors, unfortunately. Until the law is enforced they are included. :(

  • @gennygameshark
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    97 months ago

    Republicans have already publicly called for transexual peoples to be thrown into concentration camps. I believed when I first heard that, it would only be the beginning. Seems like that was right on the money.

    Beware neofascism.

  • @[email protected]
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    17 months ago

    “Detention camp” where they plan on “concentrating” a single group of people… Now where have I seen that before?