“CINC tweeted as much today, talking about Prez powers rarely used, like Lincoln-rarely-used, and having to break ‘em out if deep state shenanigans don’t abate.”
Only my own opinion but I do believe it will become necessary to use such powers, perhaps even enforce martial law for a period, when the battle reaches its decision point...probably sooner rather than later. Our enemy - and I believe they are an enemy, not fellow countrymen with a different outlook - are at their core totalitarians and they have pushed their takeover to the point that the actors involved have nothing to lose - they win, or very, very bad things happen in their lives (and those bad things will be permanent for them).
They’ll take this wherever they need to go to win. They are as ruthless as any totalitarians in history...and they have nowhere to go if they don’t win. At some point, Trump will have to become openly ruthless to defeat them completely (leaving nothing standing of their structure) or surrender. They aren’t going to give him any other choices. They will take the country down into violence and chaos and destruction if they can’t have it.
Well, they kinda do, namely the waters of, say, Baja California, dropped from, I dunno, 40Kft, because, in theory, their flight to Gitmo was arc'ed 1500mi West due to dangerous hurricanes in the CAR/GOM, from, drat, June through November.
I think the race is on to convince them of only maybe even slighter happier futures if they cooperate *now*. Does anybody really know your whereabouts once the US Marshalls arrest you for a Gitmo vacation and tribune?
We think you're highly likely to be very correct in such assessments.