Fear that President Trump will not leave office, even if defeated in 2020 — has been undone by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — and his probably agreeing 4 star colleagues

© 2020 Peter Free

 

08 June 2020

 

 

On the one (dark) hand

 

A couple of days ago, I noted a couple of self-serving reasons why our American military hierarchy refused to patrol US soil — during the George Floyd murder protests — as President Trump had wished them to.

 

 

On the happier other hand

 

Il Duce Trump will not be able to refuse to leave presidential office (if voted out in 2020), as our discord fomenting American Lamestream has often forecast.

 

It is now relatively certain that the American military would boot Trump out, after (of course):

 

 

an election

 

or

 

the Twenty-second Amendment

 

lawfully terminated his service

 

and, additionally if

 

so ordered by the American Judiciary.

 

 

That is the not-so-inconsequential prognosticative result of . . .

 

. . . Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley's memorandum of 02 June 2020.

 

Too many 4-stars (active and retired) are on board with General Milley's constitutional reasoning, for the President to power-lust his way into secure Il Duce status.

 

And even though these Generals' motives are institutionally self-serving, the result is a slightly reassuring one.

 

If they had acceded to President Trump's dictatorial direction in commanding the military policing of domestic ground, the American experience would have become even more totalitarian, than it already is.

 

 

The moral? — Dark gray looks bright in darkness

 

Thank God for small gifts.