For the first time since 1965, yesterday a president has called out a state's National Guard without a request from that state's governor. In 1965, it was President Johnson calling out the Alabama's National Guard to protect the Selma civil rights marchers. In 1957, it was President Eisenhower calling out the Arkansas National Guard to enforce the court-ordered integration of Little Rock's school system.
What is different today is that for the first time the federalization of a state's National Guard is being ordered not to *enforce* basic human rights, but to *oppose* basic human rights.
The coming Civil War grows closer, and it looks like it might start in California and spread eastward from there.
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