Trump's Dangerous Plan to Put Troops on Our Streets
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, in a recent interview, issued a stark warning: Donald Trump isn’t talking about fighting crime when he suggests sending troops into American cities. He’s talking about control.
“It’s an attack on the American people by the President of the United States,” Pritzker said. “He may disagree with a state that didn’t vote for him. But should he be sending troops in? No.”
That distinction matters. The U.S. military is trained to fight wars, not to police neighborhoods. Using soldiers to patrol our streets doesn’t create safety—it creates fear, chaos, and a dangerous precedent.
We’ve seen this before in the United States and abroad. During the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, federal troops and the Illinois National Guard were sent in to “restore order.” Instead, the streets erupted. Protesters and authorities clashed in violent confrontations that became a symbol of a government at war with its own people.
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