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National Guard

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Nick Anderson
Aug 25, 2025
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President Trump’s latest executive order to expand the role of the National Guard in law enforcement is not a policy to make America safer. It’s a blueprint for authoritarianism dressed up in camouflage.

The order carves out a standing domestic force of soldiers—trained, armed, and ready to be deployed at the president’s whim—into Democratic-run cities t…

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