Dust settles after impassioned protests but military presence unnerves California leaders – and threatens to inflame already tense situation
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hortly before last November’s presidential election, before anyone could envision him defying his “America first” political base and launching a bombing raid on Iran, Donald Trump offered a preview of how and why he would want to deploy the military on US soil.
It was, the president said, to deal with “the enemy within”.
“We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics,” he said in a Fox News interview that prompted widespread condemnation at the time. “I think it should be very easily handled by… National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”
