The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
Authoritarians must control intelligence agencies, the justice system, and the military to capture a democratic nation. President Donald Trump and his circle have made rapid progress toward seizing the intelligence community and justice system, purging top lawyers and cops for loyalist hacks. Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip, led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the commander in chief. Trump and Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth are now attempting to turn the armed forces into a partisan army, challenging the sacred American tradition of military political neutrality. The article warns of an impending crisis in American civil-military relations.
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it's hard to distinguish between fear mongering and an accurate prediction of a slowly evolving deterioration. american authoritarianism predicting has generally been accurate but the experience is a slow nuanced loss that doesn't match the dire warnings that paint a picture of a sudden and painful loss of a democratic society.
this coming crisis is likely not too far from the truth. but it is also predicted in a way that the call for resistance, doing the right thing and defending the constitution might fall not on deaf ears but ears that lack the power or momentum to stop a crisis that unfolds too slowly for them to stop.
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