, Columnist
What’s the Crackdown on Cities Really Accomplishing?
The sight of National Guard troops patrolling US cities is quickly becoming normal — something that should worry every American.
Just another day.
Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesIt was a busy week for the Trump Administration — a state visit to the UK, a crackdown on free speech following the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, and more partisan pressure applied to the Federal Reserve. Amid all of that, you could be forgiven for barely noticing that on Monday, President Donald Trump announced that he had established the Memphis Safe Task Force, a precursor to the deployment of National Guard troops in yet another American city.
And that’s perhaps what’s most alarming of all: mobilizing troops to US cities is almost becoming ordinary.