Trump's Actions Rattle the Military World: 'I Can't Support the Man'

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Erin Fangmann grew up in a military family, has been married to a captain in the Air Force for 18 years and has voted Republican all her life, including for Donald J. Trump. But as with a number of other veterans, troops and military family members who have watched the president with alarm, her support has evaporated.

“He has hurt the military,” said Ms. Fangmann, who lives in Arizona, one of several states in play this November with a high percentage of veterans and active-duty service members. “Bringing in active-duty members to the streets was a test to desensitize people to his future use of the military for his personal benefit. I think the silent majority among us is going to swing away.”

Since 2016, Mr. Trump has viewed veterans as a core slice of his base; in that year’s presidential election, about 60 percent voted for him, according to exit polls, and swing-state counties with especially high numbers of veterans helped him win. Many veterans and members of the military stuck with him even as he attacked the Vietnam War record of Senator John McCain, disparaged families of those killed in combat and denigrated generals whom he fired or drove from government service. Some conservative rank-and-file enlisted members silently agreed with Mr. Trump.

But the president’s threat last week to use active-duty troops on American streets against largely peaceful protesters, and his flirtation with invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act, have rattled the military world, from its top leaders to its youngest veterans. If they break in significant numbers, they could carry political weight in key battleground states like Arizona, North Carolina and Ohio.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/trumps-actions-rattle-the-military-world-i-cant-support-the-man/ar-BB15oFir?li=BBnb7Kz

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And military, both active duty and retired, must look askance at Trump's intention to draw down

25% of troops stationed in Germany.

[Ananda62]

2. It may seem surprising

But a lot of us don’t support him. I was a Capt in the USAF, my sister was an Army major, and her husband was a USAF LTC. We belong to a Veterans Against Trump resistance group.

I just hope active duty military personnel feel the same as us!

[Skittles]

5. I cannot understand how any American military person can support a fascist dicatator-wannabe

I find it sickening and I, too, am a veteran.

[CRK7376]

3. This retired O-6

has never voted Republican and never will. trumpster is the antithesis of doing one's duty and public service. He sickens me on a daily basis.

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[Hekate]

6. From your keyboard to God's screen

[Cha]

7. This I really like to see.. because it just makes

so much sense!

Why would anyone support that heinous monster but the braindead cult45?

[Cha]

8. Let the Fascist Magats take note.. you're Not going to

take over our country by force.. I bet that's what they were trying to see if they could.