What is unfolding before our very eyes — with police agencies defying local governments in order to tap into the power of federal militarized troops in order to put down domestic unrest — could very quickly snowball into an act of aggression against the states, a coup by armed, militarized agents of the federal government.
At a minimum, this is an attack on the Tenth Amendment, which affirms the sovereignty of the states and the citizenry, and the right of the states to stand as a bulwark against overreach and power grabs by the federal government.
If you're still deluding yourself into believing that this thinly-veiled exercise in martial law is anything other than an attempt to bulldoze what remains of the Constitution and reinforce the iron-fisted rule of the police state, you need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
This is no longer about partisan politics or civil unrest or even authoritarian impulses.
This is a turning point.
Comment: Where does re-establishing "law and order" begin - and where does it end? While we can support the intentions and efforts by Trump to re-establish some semblance of law and order in American cities being overrun by rioters and leftist extremists, we should also be wary that the police state infrastructure doesn't move in and trample on the public as it is well known to do.
Trump is caught between a rock and a hard place - by design one might argue; do nothing and he can well be accused of not living up to his responsibility to protect Americans as the country continues to burn. Employ federal agencies and troops to said cities - and he runs the risk of unleashing the most pathological elements of the established police state infrastructure - and be accused by the opposition of being a Nazi, a dictator, etc.
There are no easy answers here.