If President Trump orders widespread military deployments against the wishes of state and local officials to deal with civil unrest, it would be unprecedented
U.S. Army units deployed in Mississippi by John F. Kennedy in 1962. Photo: Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images During the last few days, President Trump has bobbed and weaved in his reaction to the killing of George Floyd and the unrest that act unleashed.
On Monday morning, Trump held a call with governors after a weekend of violent clashes. In comments one participant called “unhinged,” he ranted at his fellow chief executives for failing to act more repressively toward law-breaking protesters and opportunistic looters.
If Trump orders widespread military deployments against the wishes of state and local officials to deal with civil unrest, it would be unprecedented — that is, unless you think of blue America as a renegade region like the Jim Crow South. But it’s clearly under consideration, as today’s White House press briefing indicated:
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