Greetings From Out Of the Blue@GreetingsOut@universeodon.com
“It’s important to see Trump’s occupation of Washington, D.C. as a trial run for a possible military occupation of the United States, including martial law, later in his term. I don’t want to be paranoid, but Trump may figure he needs such a plan if his strategies to hold Congress after the midterm elections raise too much public opposition, especially in big Democratic cities.
I suspect he’s most interested in learning six things:
1. How quickly and obediently the Defense Department and the National Guard are able to act in a major city
2. How legal challenges are handled in the federal courts
3. How the media reacts
4. Whether it wipes away almost all Epstein stories.
5. How it plays with his base.
6. How it plays with Republicans in Congress
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-trial-run?r=ce00&utm_medium=ios