It's not like the military is like this precious thing that has only ever been used for good.

Like there are some really, really deep and stark criticisms we can make about the decisions of how we've employed the military in the past.

And I think that's important to keep in perspective.

However, using the armed military as a political prop to instill fear in American citizens so that the executive can take more power,

enrich his friends, and strip us of our constitutional rights along the way. That is a new thing.

Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

Well, I think anyone who's paying attention can see that we've crossed the Rubicon,

that there is no longer a near constitutional crisis, but we are deep inside one. That our president is outright denying

Supreme Court rulings, doctoring evidence to justify human trafficking, bypassing Congress

to rule by executive order, that our Justice Department, IRS and FCC are no longer independent

agencies, but acting as enforcement arms of our president's personal vendettas, that our government

is stopping food inspections and health research and public information on the spread of deadly

diseases. The Trump administration seems completely disinterested in governing, far more interested

in focusing on personal profit and payback. And three months into this presidency, we have abandoned

our long-established allies

from Western liberal democracies to favor mutually agreeable relationships with dictator-run

nations like Hungary, Russia, North Korea, and El Salvador.

In fact, as we shoot today, we were watching to see if this administration would double down

on their national emergency lies

as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and unleash American troops on American citizens.

One of the groups I keep thinking about when I consider the options we have to save ourselves is the

military. I'm curious what our veterans are thinking. I question where our active duty officers

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