The Enemy Within
It’s almost laughable. The wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from the media and the left about the statement President Trump made about use of the National Guard and potentially “the military” is hilariously overblown.
State Run Media (formerly known as Mainstream Media) has taken this to mean President Trump is going on a “Revenge Tour” if he is elected again. As if he is going to round up Democrats and start putting them in jail or using the military as if they are the Gestapo or SS from Nazi Germany. It’s editorializing at best and election interference at worst. Really, it is nothing more than fear mongering.
He did specifically mention Marxists, Communists, and fascists. He did specifically mention opposition Representative Schiff and former Speaker Pelosi. I won’t deny that. I am confident, when applying common sense, he was not talking about using military assets on those two individuals. I am also confident that it was, not so very long ago, Marxists, Communists, and fascists were enemies of the United States. There was a Cold War and a whole bunch of proxy wars wrapped around that. You did take American History in High School, right?
Again, applying common sense, I am confident President Trump was speaking of the use of the National Guard to help state governors control civil disturbances in the wake of the election. You know, in the same way they did in 2020 during COVID. Did you know there were over 40,000 members of the National Guard (at its peak) activated in 34 states plus the District of Columbia to help with civil disturbance? Yeah. FORTY THOUSAND. Let’s not pretend it’s a new thing or if there are forty thousand activated Guard members during a Trump administration, it is going to turn into martial law. Didn’t happen then, won’t happen now.
When President Trump was talking about the “Enemy Within,” he was also speaking about the dangerous people that have been let into this country by a failed border policy. We now have the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, operating in about a dozen major cities, to include Chicago, New York, and Houston. This is the same gang that Martha Raddatz famously said were only involved in “a handful” of incidents of serious crimes in Aurora, Colorado.
**Side Note: Pretty sure Martha wouldn’t be calling it a “handful” if even one of those crimes was committed in her own house.
I personally believe we are at the point to use our special operations forces DOMESTICALLY to fight this transnational terror threat. I know that won’t be a popular opinion, but I think that is where we are. Get the Tier 1 units involved, give them the assets they used in Iraq and Afghanistan, and take them off the leash. Seriously. This is beyond law enforcement. I also think this is what President Trump was referring to when he mentioned employing “the military”.
What is the scariest part of all of this is that people…educated people…actually believe what the State Run Media is putting out. They also believe, even after the traitorous acts of General Milley AGAINST President Trump through his unauthorized communication with China, that the military will BLINDLY follow orders by the President. Really? You love to tout the 741 signators of the National Security Leaders for America document, many of which are retired officers and NCOs, but you still think President Trump would have the ability to declare martial law or employ the military AGAINST the American public and everyone would just nod and say “Yessir!”.
You can’t have it both ways. Either military leaders like Petraeus, Milley, and McCrystal are so smart and reliable to endorse Vice President Harris, or everyone in the military is a robot and will do what they are told. Which is it? Every General or Admiral in the military at this very second was approved into their current job by the CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. So, are they traitors? Are they lying in wait until President Trump is put back into office? Have they NOT been properly vetted by the current Congress and current Administration?
The military is NOT obligated to follow orders unless they are Legal, Moral, and Ethical. Yes, those orders must meet all three requirements. You would be hard pressed, unless it is ACTUALLY necessary, to find a senior military leader to endorse or support enacting martial law solely on the word of the President. And even then, you’d be harder pressed to find a bunch of mid-level leaders to execute it.
So, which is it? Do we love and trust the military to do what is “right”? Or do we think they will blindly follow the orders of President Trump?
How about, we take ALL this absurdity off the table. Seriously. President Trump IS NOT going to order the military to attack American citizens. President Trump MAY recommend that individual governors use their own National Guard in the wake of the election to deal with civil disturbances. President Trump SHOULD consider using active military forces surgically to defeat transnational gangs. The actively military WILL NOT blindly follow the orders of the President to attack American citizens, even if he DID order them to (which he won’t).
Here is a bonus for you…
All this talk by State Run Media and the Harris-Walz campaign bout President Trump using the military against the American public makes it virtually impossible for the current administration to do the same in the two months between the election and the inauguration. And don’t think that hasn’t been discussed. The potential for the current administration to suspend the election results and delay the inauguration due to “civil unrest” has certainly been discussed as an option. But the claims against President Trump make that unrealistic, thank God.
This discussion has, however, revealed the TRUE “Enemy Within”. It is the State Run Media. As they continue to stump and campaign and provide propaganda for the left, they have revealed themselves as the threat to democracy and to this Republic. Their unethical behavior, baseless and highly influenced messaging, and their ability to be BOUGHT and SOLD by wealthy liberals have landed them here. They are no longer the Fourth Estate. Yeah. I said it.
The biased media is The Enemy Within.