New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Why so many of us have the instinct to provide Trump a muted response to the D.C. outrage.

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One of the reassurances is that these little fascist excursions will continue to be impotent because America is just so goddamn big and populous. He deploys thousands of soldiers to LA and they can barely show force in more than 1% of its area. Inevitably they play tough a couple of weeks and fizzle

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  1. He wants to train up 600 troops to respond to unrest? Shit, they couldn’t have even tamped down J6 let alone civil unrest in a city of 18 million spread across 30 thousand square miles.

    I agree, it’s serious for it’s criminality but doomed to remain impotent.

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