When you now start seeing the politicization of the military, deliberately, when you have what looks like a deliberate end run around not just a concept, but a law that's been around for a long time, Pasei Comitatis.

That is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy.

Hi again, everyone.

It's now five o'clock in New York with each member of the National Guard that Donald

Trump deploys into blue cities and blue states.

He is essentially weakening our democracy deliberately.

Former President Barack Obama weighing in there

on comedian Mark Maren's latest episode of his WTF podcast as Team Trump considers a dramatic escalation

and how it uses the military against Americans. White House officials have, according to NBC News,

quote, held increasingly serious discussions in recent days

about his invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president

the power to deploy active duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes.

Just take a listen to how J.D. Vance spoke about it over the weekend,

and then hear Obama point out the insanity of it all. Are you seriously considering invoking

the Insurrection Act? Well, the president's looking at all his options. Right now, he hasn't

felt he needed to, but we have to remember why are we talking about this, Kristen?

Because crime has gotten out of control in our cities.

If I had sent in the National Guard into Texas and just said, you know what, a lot of problems in Dallas, you know, a lot of crime there.

And I don't care what Governor Abbott says. I'm going to kind of take over law enforcement because I think things are out of control.

It is mind-boggling to me how Fox News would have responded.

I would like to see that. But it is truly mind-boggling, and at the same time, this is where we are.

But the Trump administration being given a free pass to dismantle our democracy from its allies and folks on Fox News, cheering him on or standing silently on the sidelines. One person who's not doing

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