The cancer infecting the political Left

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-08-2020, 06:38 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: It is under the command of the Governor in its most usual applications (responses to natural disasters), but a Governor who uses the state National Guard for unconstitutional purposes (like Orval Faubus using the Arkansas National Guard to thwart desegregation) can find that by a Presidential decree that the State National Guard can have to answere to the President instead.

Once in a while, most recently with Bush 43's Iraq war, the Guard winds up used as an army reserve and abroad. That is hopefully rare.

Today? I have wondered if for some reason Trump might nationalize some red state's Guard, likely with a red governor and a red adjutant general commanding the Guard. An unlikely scenario, but it could bypass the ranking Pentagon's refusal to fight America.