Democrats Must Fight Back Against Trump’s Militarized and Authoritarian War on Crime

Last week, the Trump administration was proudly published footage of the American army that carried out a non -judicial death to 11 unidentified men on a boat in the Caribbean. At the same time, the convincing government agents are chasing, beating and kidnapping people in the streets of the country’s capital without punishment. The President deployed the armed National Guard forces with armored combat vehicles to Los Angeles and Washington, DC, in a force of power, and promised to send more forces to the democratic cities that show that insufficient respect.

This is like a lot, such as the arrival of the authoritarian, which many Democrats warn us of this for the best part of the past decade. Now that President Donald Trump himself was the title of “dictator”, why does it look very few of the stimulant democratic leaders?

Last week, the Trump administration was proudly published footage of the American army that carried out a non -judicial death to 11 unidentified men on a boat in the Caribbean. At the same time, the convincing government agents are chasing, beating and kidnapping people in the streets of the country’s capital without punishment. The President deployed the armed National Guard forces with armored combat vehicles to Los Angeles and Washington, DC, in a force of power, and promised to send more forces to the democratic cities that show that insufficient respect.

This is like a lot, such as the arrival of the authoritarian, which many Democrats warn us of this for the best part of the past decade. Now that President Donald Trump himself was the title of “dictator”, why does it look very few of the stimulant democratic leaders?

Let’s think about what is happening in the national capital. After announcing the “crime emergency” in the capital on August 11, Trump deployed about 2000 soldiers from the National Guard and 2,500 federal law enforcement officers in the city and confirmed federal control over the city police administration.

From tempting, perhaps reassuring, rejecting the entire exercise as a TV performance of the Maga base, or a feverish attempt to change the topic from Jeffrey Epstein files, or distraction from economic problems. The brochures of the National Guard members who pick up garbage and foliage in the capital of the capital, the Federal Investigation Office and the secret service that cooperates with three other federal agencies to confiscate Dim bags from marijuana, a prominent guard looking for a red light in Washington. Veep From the threat of the republic.

But there is nothing entertaining about the incompatible focus of the federal height on the enforcement of immigration, which means in practice clear areas of migration and customs enforcement (ICE), and often supported by other federal agents and the DC Capital Police Department, such as Class of Labor. This is now a daily event in Washington.

Is Trump DC acquired a propaganda trick? Immigration campaign. Or, as local military publication operations indicate clearly against the will of local communities, a real attempt to create an authoritarian rule? There is no reason because it cannot be the three. While the guard members in the capital are falling to the performance of its cleaning at the present time, the Trump administration is working steadily to convert the army into an effective tool for local repression. This publication reinforces a narration that the army can fight the crime, and by deploying the guard in coordination with the ice, Trump connects the army by suppressing it to the immigrants. This association is likely to tear the high confidence that the US military is currently among the Americans. But for Trump, the reputable risks of the armed forces are an advantage, not a mistake.

The lack of clarity of the lines between the army and the ice gives the army’s position to the Immigration campaign that is unpopular and enhances Trump’s dominance of the national security state, which was stumbled on it during his first term. Repeated local publishing operations will build approval within the army to implement its non -liberal local agenda; The more the military bureaucracy is responsible for enforcement of local law, the more frequently it is to abandon a high -level mission that earns the praise of the Supreme Commander.

Trump was clearly that he did not intend to expand the scope of the deployment of the National Guard/Ice integrated into other blue cities (with Chicago at the top of his list), but also aims to expand the role of the guard in the next campaign. On August 25, his executive will direct that all national guards in the state are “trained and ready to help bridge civil unrest worldwide” and to maintain the National Guard to maintain “a rapid reaction force for rapid publication at the country level.” Trump’s federal agents have already attacked and arrested immigrants, American citizens, and even a US Senate, and is trying to obtain the armed forces in the game.

Last week’s strike in the Caribbean Sea region followed months of threats to the army’s use against drug gangs, proving that the hadith of the deadly administration should be taken dangerous. The Trump administration has always launched drone strikes and special operations against Carttics in Mexico, which was also classified as foreign terrorist organizations.

The war game organized by winning without teaching the war found earlier this year that the American military intervention in Mexico will not only fail to stop the drug trade across the border, but also that it will provide a political cover for the Trump administration to start accusing the citizens of the United States arbitrarily to the terrorist organization if they bought the theoretically linked products from marijuana. For 11 unidentified figures in a small boat, this accusation carried the death penalty by the US military.

We are approaching the moment when former Vice President Kamala Harris warned of the campaign’s course in October 2024 when Trump “will use the army as his personal militias.”

However, there are a few scattered Democrats – such as JB Pritzker – on the other side, most of her party is clearly silent. The leader of the House of Representatives of the Hakim Jeffrez cleared him and deviated last week when he was asked about the empty point on CNN about his plan, which was to fight the deployment of Trump Guard. Earlier last month, the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, pledged to combat “teeth and nails” against Trump’s acquisition of the Capital Police, but he was then called “distraction”, echoing to assess the “national security democracy”, the pioneer, Senator Elisa Sliocin. A joint decision to end the state of emergency in Washington in Washington has so far has obtained 83 participating sponsors-more than a third of Democrats in the House of Representatives.

The problem is not only that the Democrats adopt a right -wing framework for the policy of “law and order”, and police expert Alex S. wrote. Vitaly last month in Current affairs magazine. It also adopts the framing of right -wing national security in general, leaving them a little way to disagree when the national security state is employed illegally or illegal.

When Trump bombed Iranian nuclear sites in June, bypassing the license of Congress required to make a war, Democrats focused on the unconstitutional nature of strikes, but rarely asked about strategic recklessness or international legitimacy to bomb Iran. Jeffrez I was announcing that “Iran is an enemy consisting of the United States and could never be allowed to become a force capable of nuclear weapons.” Former Foreign Minister Anthony Blinkkin, who is now sitting at the Board of Directors of the Democratic Research Center for the American progress, formed an editorial criticizing Trump’s rash but was fine with illegal preventive strikes (to the extent of trying to claim credit for them if they worked).

Criticism has focused to bypass Trump at home similarly on procedures on the principle. Jeffrez and even Pritzker tried to retract Trump by saying that in Washington and Chicago, the crime is a decrease – an argument that leads to the validity of Trump’s framing and indicates that the deployment of the army will be appropriate if these cities suffer from high crime rates. The MSNBC host Joe Scarboro recently hosted this logic to the maximum logical limits, indicating that Pritzker should voluntarily participate with Trump to use the National Guard to fight crime in Chicago and that Republican rulers who volunteer in their forces in Washington or Chicago should instead publish them into cities with high crime in their original states.

The common democratic discourse over the occupation of American cities and the bombing of foreign countries is the implicit acceptance that there is a serious threat there and that it needs to be met by state violence. Absence is any major challenge to this model of militarization and the natural assumption that the armed armed solution will be fair and effective.

In the event of an actual foreign terrorist attack, we can only imagine how quickly the poverty resistance to this militarization is rapidly and how the Democrats will embrace the forces in the streets easily, even as Trump used to cancel the opposition.

Democrats should not reject people’s legitimate concerns about crime. Americans have the right to feel safe in their homes and societies. But they also have the right to know the really working methods that are just a security theater. Instead of trying to calibrate the correct number of badges and rifles to inject them into American cities, Democrats must celebrate the staggering timor in reducing murders to the lowest level in 50 years over only three years by increasing coordinated social services. They must make fun of anyone who claims to be “difficult for crime” with the refusal to implement evidence -based strategies.

Likewise, instead of trying to find the most constitutional way to bomb Iranian cities, Democrats must mention in an exposed manner that Trump’s policy has undermined our security, made us closer to the conflict on a large scale, and made the Iranian government more likely to decide on obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Democrats who are chasing right -wing positions in security issues are not new. Former President Lindon Johnson reluctantly expanded our involvement in Vietnam because he was afraid that Republicans would call him to be weak. Indeed, the National Security State that Trump is now working with the abandonment of perfection by the last two democratic presidents, who sought the infrastructure of brutal migration and influenced the proving new, fatal legal precedents to drop bombs on people – including American citizens – all across the Middle East and Africa.

But with the presence of forces in the streets, the army prepared to detonate Trump as a terrorist, and Stephen Miller collided with the Democratic Party itself as a “local extremist organization”, which is running out of time. Democratic leaders need to confront reality, respond, and abandon the logic of militarization before they become their coming victims.