"He wants US military force deployed on US soil, facing inward."

Rachel shows her anger and disbelief so well.

If crime rates in the nation’s capital are already at their lowest levels in decades, why is the White House launching yet another power grab?

Fascist Trump to deploy the National Guard to D.C., place local police under federal control.
If crime rates in the nation’s capital are already at their lowest levels in decades, why is the White House launching yet another power grab?
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— hateGOP (@hategop.bsky.social) 2025-08-11T17:57:53.893Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-deploy-national-guard-dc-place-local-police-federal-control-rcna224303

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yet another power grab?"

Here's why.
Reason 1: It's less about a launching a power grab, and more about maintaining the existing illusion of power. He's about dictatorial power spectacle.
The felon launches his most familiar spectacle (from his growing repertoire) that plays to the RW stereotypes re non-whites and crime, that he knows most folks already believe.
Re DC numbers, his spectacle plays to a timeline of the truth getting out in a familiar sequence:
-- after he holds Leavitt pressers that announce arrests (assuming he's not stopped by Judge Breyer over the Posse Comitatus criminal case against him in San Francisco) https://www.democraticunderground.com/132284508) in other blue cities, and
-- then leaves the left and rw press to sort out all their interpretations and predictions of his actions;
-- over time he'll spread more arrest numbers on platforms, then
-- he'll be told the crime numbers in DC (likely in one of his taped WH pressers) are low, at which point
-- he will take credit for those numbers, then
-- spread that taped segment through the rw echo chamber.
Reason 2: Even though the evidence Judge Breyer has against his "inward" use of the US military is solid, Trump will have his DOJ fight to publicly beat this federal judge, while he berates him in public platforms to gain more sympathy votes from anti-crime voters. Even if the judge (and/or SCOTUS) rule in the CA governor's favor, Trump's overall goal will be to ignore the rulings, and continue to turn the US Military inward, in what will amount to his "unitary executive power" challenging to the upper courts to enforce their rulings.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-california-national-guard-deployment-trial/

In that no one will want to sign up.

because Democracy comes down to what will the military do.
A small military can still contain us. A defiant military will contain Trump.

for Marshal Law so he can suspend the 2028 election.

All those poor Marshals have been given a bad name by many of us commentators.

I'm watching now (I DVR'd it from last night).

for nearly a decade....... about the depth that MAGAots have infiltrated the National Guard, Secret Service, DOJ, the U.S. Military, U.S. Border Patrol, as well as Local and State Law Enforcement and also Fire and EMS...........

Talk about the PERFECT STORM..........................

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The military and law enforcement also have large numbers of minorities and women in their ranks.

Not such a perfect "storm", it seems.

In fact, several command level personnel were reassigned in LA as they expressed concern over the legality of their orders.

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