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Earlier this summer, Trump made history in the worst of ways by being the first sitting U.S. president to federalize a state's national guard and deploy them through improper channels against the

protests of a sitting governor when he sent troops into California during the protests of ICE

deportation activities in Los Angeles and elsewhere. At the time, I was writing about that mass

deportation campaign, and my sentiment was that this was the

ultimate revelation of the Trump regime's fascistic authoritarianism, transforming the armed forces

into the leader's own national police force. It was something I'd warned about in advance

in my two-part series called the looming threat of fascism, in which I drew

parallels between the threat posed by a second Trump term and the rise of Italian fascism and

Nazism in Weimar, Germany. To quote myself, I said then, almost exactly a year ago in September 2024, that even during

his first term, Trump more than once threatened to deploy active-duty military domestically,

considering declarations of martial law openly during the George Floyd protests, asking,

according to his Secretary of Defense, why he can't just have soldiers

shoot protesters.

And according to one Homeland Security official, as well as the findings of the January

6 Committee, he also considered declaring martial law on January 6th, in order to help

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