A number of current generals have also published letters more or less subtly denouncing Trump and emphasizing that their troops are not to fire on American protestors. I admit I'm a little surprised by the reaction, but I guess Donnie boy isn't the best at installing loyal officers in the military. Pity he's definitely too hamfisted to see the threat to him in all of this...he's treading on what is historically rather dangerous ground.
Yeah I've always found the military's resistance to Trump curious. They've taken all sorts of marching orders over the years from various kinds of presidents. Do they literally just have no respect for Trump? Do they (I'd like to believe) have a moral core of duty that they feel doing what Trump says violates? Is it just that their preferred power structures are threatened by Trump's arbitrary leadership and so they're silently not treating him like the Commander 'n Chief? Do they just have more backbone than the Under Secretary of Corner Case Department Who Wants To Be Rich?
Because the military feels like the only power structure in American government right now that hasn't be either stacked with Trump appointees, or corrupted by the general politics of his administration.
I doubt a lot of military types look highly of a draft dodging coward.
One that has a habit of insulting veterans and their families, no less.
That's a fair point for the average enlisted soldier, but let's not fool ourselves: top military brass are more political animals than soldiers. What would make the Pentagon resistant to Trump? Like I said, I'd like to think it's the fear that Trump could touch off a real global conflict for devastatingly stupid/self serving reasons. But that's never seemed to scare them in the past.
Like, the military is made up of regular citizens too. Among the enlisted and the officers, there's gotta be just as many blinkered idiots in their ranks as in the general population. So why hasn't that manifested in either a) greater support in the military for Trump or b) a shake up in leadership in the military so people more favorable to Trump are in control?