Trump's administration is describing -- quite openly -- their desire to deploy the military in major blue-state cities ...
They're not even slightly covert about it
This does not come as news to most folks roundabouts mastodon, I suspect ...
... but this post at Rolling Stone is nonetheless a good roundup of some of the more blatant and open statements:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-crackdown-get-worse-1235406382/
Clive Thompson
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