Starting Or Stopping Insurrections

DURING THE INSURRECTION of January 6, 2021, then president Trump sat in the White House and watched it on television, rooting for the insurrection to succeed, rooting for the violent mob to actually ovetthrow the government by intimidating it into stealing the presidency from Biden and giving it to Trump. Appropriate was Trump's rooting, since the mini revolution was entirely Trump's idea, the violent insurrectionist mob was following Trump's orders. Trump's attempt to illegally remain in office by staging a coup. Fast forward to the present, and we see Trump, again president, reacting to a peaceful protest in Los Angeles by sending in armed forces to stamp it out, thus exacerbating it, and turning it violent. Trump clearly wanted and intended a peaceful protest to become a violent insurrection. For this he had, and still has, the enthusiastic support of a vast majority of Republicans and conservative Americans generally, including and especially the devout Christian demographic. Trump supporters today seem to regard the insurrectionits as heroes, and were pleased when Trump pardoned them all, early in his second term. Can you imagine what would have happened if, heaven forbid, two weeks prior to leaving office, President Obama had convened a political rally near the White Hosue, and exhorted thousands of angry young black men, well armed, to "go to the Capitol and fight like hell"? Of course you can. Every Republican member ofCongresswould have whipped out a smart phone and called the National Guard, the Capitol police, and every branch of the United States armed forces, demanding intervention. The African-American insurrectionists would have been gunned down, mowed down, like red ants sprayed with Raid. A violent mob of white Christian consrvative proto-MAGA types would have surrounded the White House, crushed through the iron fence, stormed into the Oval Office, dragged Obama out onto the well manicured lawn, and lynched him. An apparently inevitable, undeniable fact is that as we go forward, opposition and resistance to Trump is going to grow and swell. Street protests against Trump's heavy handed immigrant deportation policies are already spreading to many other American cities, and, as the gestapo styled I.C.E. raids begin to take place all over they country, they will only fans the flames higher. If Trump sends the American military into these cities, as he already has in Los Angeles, the arrival of authoritarian fascism in the former republic will be a fully established fact. Ironic, since placing the United States military at the Mixican border, currently illegal, could be a peaceful and effective way of organizing and bringing sanity to the current immigrant situation. Sending active duty military into American cities to crush protests is illegal, always has been, and should forever remain so. Immigration does not have to be a divisive issue in the U.S.. Everyone can understand teh benefits of maintaing a highly organized,efficient of controlling immigration, welcoming large numbers of valuable immigrants who will contribute to the U.S. economy and society, while bringing an end to the steady avalanche of illegal immigration which has been impacting the United States for nearly two hundred years. As for the roughly many millions of immigrants already living in the U.S. illegally; most of them deserve and should be offered a reasonable pathway to citizenship. Americans generally will do the right thing, the sensible thing, the reasonable thing, usually after trying all other options. Trump and Trumpers won't even do that much, a fact which constitutes the single greatest threat to American security.