Trump doesn’t have the power to take over police departments in other cities apart from Washington
Donald Trump threatened to send active-duty military personnel into America’s third-largest city to quell what he described as out-of-control crime at the hands of a liberal mayor and Democratic-run city and state governments.
Speaking in the Oval Office Friday to reporters, Trump was boasting of positive crime numbers in the District of Columbia since he seized control of the capital’s police department earlier this month.
He claimed the national guard soldiers tasked with patrolling some of Washington had been doing an “incredible job working with the police” and said his solution for the capital — uniformed soldiers and roving patrols of federal agents who have largely been conducting immigration arrests of delivery drivers according to government statistics — would soon be sent to “another location” to “make it safe.”
what happened to small government not involving itself with states. i thought that was supposed to be a pillar of supposed “conservatives” that support this tragedy of a government
Republicans are not conservatives anymore, they embraced fascism, and fascists don’t care about rules. They only care about power, the kind that allows them to bully everyone into submission.
Conservatives have always had authoritarianism as their motivating force. Most of them probably have the mental disorder outlined in The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer.
This idea that Republicans are now somehow violating some ideals laid out in the conservative movement is a very problematic one. Probably even a dangerous one.
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(That’s literally what conservatism is)
Big government is when Republicans arent in control.
Big government is when it gets in their way to power.