As president, Trump sought to use military planes and bases for deportation. Now, he and his allies are talking about a new effort that current and former officials warn could be impractical and dangerous.

In particular, there is call for starting a civil war:

Miller also suggested using National Guard troops, state police and other federal law enforcement agencies as force multipliers, even sending National Guard troops from Republican-led states into neighboring states governed by Democrats. “If you’re going to go into an unfriendly state like Maryland, well, they would just be Virginia doing the arrest in Maryland,” he said in the November podcast interview.

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      Because the people in charge of enforcing and interpreting the law are ideologically aligned with him.

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      Because we are still a democratic state and not an authoritarian state, yet.

      I mean Carlson is already feeding them propaganda on how the country would be if it was like Russia. Such a wonderful, low cost country with amazing bread.

      The price of democracy includes traitors, unfortunately.

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        We actually have a constitutional amendment barring insurrectionists like him from being President, but the Supreme Court is likely to side with him because most of the justices want a far right dictatorship.