Posted on 10/22/2025 7:03:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats are apoplectic that President Trump has deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, and will soon deploy them in Portland, and likely Chicago, thereafter.
They proclaim that these deployments are unconstitutional, and that the Guard and other military units are constrained by posse comitatus, a law that limits military use for policing activities.
Deploying the National Guard is/was a risky endeavor. To date though, the deployment of military resources (L.A., D.C., Memphis) has been overwhelmingly successful.
The National Guard has significantly reduced crime in our nation’s capital, quelled unrest in Los Angeles without significant blowback, and with the invitation of Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee, has reduced violent crime there to decades lows.
Hard-leftist-run Portland and Chicago have resisted the National Guard deployment in earnest, with both mayors threatening consequences if the president deploys the Guard in their cities.
President Trump has proved -- that is, demonstrated the truth or existence of something by evidence or argument -- that a more robust approach to fighting crime can produce positive results, and make the streets safer for citizens of D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis, and anywhere else that a more robust attention to crime is employed, versus the soft-on-crime policies that has been prevalent in these Democrat-run cities for the past decade.
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Hail to our great Chief.
Don’t forget the Portland police who seemed to be working with antifa half the time.
The Portland Police do work for Antifa.
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