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The painful symbolism of the 26,000 National Guard troops in D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n

Those of you who are reading this post are the type of people who pay attention to things. That\u2019s why you already know that 26,000 National Guard troops drawn from all over America and from Puerto Rico, have assembled in Washington, D.C., in advance of Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration on Wednesday. (That\u2019s about three divisions worth of troops.) But have you given serious thought to what the troops\u2019 presence means?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard from some optimistic people who believe that the troops are the last phase in a Trumpian plan to reclaim America and maintain it as a true constitutional republic, rather than the socialist tyranny the Democrats seem to have planned. I\u2019m a perennial pessimist, so I\u2019m sorry to say that I don\u2019t believe that the troops\u2019 presence means anything good.<\/p>\n

Instead, I\u2019m inclined to agree with Tucker Carlson\u2019s brilliant Monday night opening monologue regarding the deeper meaning behind a massive D.C. lockdown that makes it look like Baghdad, circa 2003. As Tucker noted, this troop build-up is five times the number of military personnel currently stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.<\/p>\n

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In April 1968, when Washington D.C. was in flames following Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s assassination, with a riot that injured more than 1,000 people, killed more than 13, and devastated D.C. for the next thirty years, President Johnson called in only half that number of National Guard troops to protect the nation\u2019s capital. Even during the Civil War, at the height of the fighting, there weren\u2019t 26,000 troops in D.C.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the justification for the current troop build-up? According to the Democrats, it\u2019s because of a dangerous insurrection. If you\u2019re thinking that means an armed, murderous, determined attempt to overthrow the U.S. government and put a new government in its place, think again. Instead, the Democrats are referring to January 6, when a small number of people \u2013 a minute fraction of the 500,000 to 1,000,000 Americans who gathered to hear Trump speak \u2013 entered the Capitol without arms or a plan.<\/p>\n

An even smaller number of those people committed property violence, and an even smaller subset of those people assaulted police officers with bear spray, fists, or heavy objects. Three people died, one at the hands of an unidentified government shooter.<\/p>\n

I cannot condemn the violence strongly enough. I detest violence, political or otherwise. However, when the events on January 6 are compared to the riots that caused billions of dollars of damage across America over the summer and took at least two-dozen lives, January 6 wasn\u2019t even small potatoes; it was small lentils, at most.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it is that unfocused, semi-spontaneous event that Democrats are using to justify turning D.C. into a military occupation. The Congress critters are the heroes of their own drama and they are willingly abandoning even a pretense of being a free, democratic republic to heighten the magnitude of their over-the-top histrionic response.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, when Trump was inaugurated, the video below, which contains newly released footage of events in 2017, shows the kind of violence that leftists visited on the city because they lost the election to a man who promised to \u2013 and did \u2013 govern within the rule of law and for the greatest good of the greatest number of people:<\/p>\n