“We think Chicago will be next and we’ll get to St. Louis, also. … We have to save St. Louis.”

So declares President Donald Trump, musing recently over which Democratic-run city is in his sights next for deployment of National Guard troops , ostensibly to fight crime.

We say “ostensibly” because that’s not what the National Guard troops he has sent into Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and, now, Memphis , are actually engaged in — and there’s precious little evidence that crimefighting was ever the point. National Guard troops aren't trained for civilian law enforcement because, constitutionally speaking, that's not what they're supposed to be doing. The ones deployed so far are primarily standing around guarding federal facilities from nothing in particular in lower-crime areas of t

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