Actually, somewhat similar comments were made about the government at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion, Reconstruction after the Civil War, and when President Eisenhower sent the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958.
I agree that the current executive has “out-shown” all of the previous.
And for those interested in history, the Army’s Center of Military History has nearly all of its publications available online in .pdf or html format.
Yes, an also in Alabama with Governor George Wallace.
Different times and different reasons.
The fact still remains the Air Force and the Navy have no business in subsidizing studies with respect to crowd, group, mob - whatever dissension or control thereof in this country, period.