VDH has a very long track record of not being the excitable type, and of having a very deep understanding of history.
He seems scared lately, and he seems to think it’s time or all could be lost.
There is a fine line of letting them make idiots of themselves, and letting them run wild. At some point in the movie, everyone wants the bully to get punched in the nose.
The more frightening problem is that when he sent the National Guard in, the cops started kneeling, the Generals started saying it was looking like a dictatorship, etc.
The longer nothing is done, the worse this gets.
In your opinion! I detect nothing like that.
I agree, the truly alarming thing was the military leaders feeling free to come out and make their own statements to the press completely rejecting Trump’s leadership (without even informing him in advance, it seemed to me).
Obama did massive damage to the military leadership and many of them seem to me to be playing for the other side and would probably flat out reject Trump’s orders.
The problem with Trump, however, is that in opposing this treachery, he blusters and laments, but doesn’t actually do anything even though he would certainly be within his rights to make some “personnel changes.” So his options for action are limited, he looks personally peeved but not very resolute, and I think that’s losing him a lot of support.
I’m hoping this is just a dip and he gets some fighting spirit back.
BTW, one thing he could do is move ahead and really insist on opening up the country again. These riots are the direct result of people being locked up, isolated, and unemployed for three-four months, out of contact with their schools, churches, or even recreational groups. Instead he’s just tolerating the insane lockdown policies of these states which now appear to want to extend this for ever. Give them incentives for reopening and penalties for not doing so. The (in my opinion) non-existent “health emergency” is long over but never have they had so much power...he was the one who declared this and gave them that power, and now he’s got to fix it. And fast!