Editorial: Targeting US cities as military 'training grounds' must not become normal

It’s a chilling characteristic of the Trump era that a breach of norms so startling it once would have launched weeks or months of national soul-searching now passes from the headlines in a day, displaced by the next political thunderclap.

This is dangerous because it numbs Americans to the unacceptable. So before it passes from the public consciousness as a blip of brief controversy tucked between the Charlie Kirk assassination and the government shutdown, let’s all pause for a moment and consider this incredible, horrific fact:

The sitting president of the United States on Tuesday stood before an audience of hundreds of the nation’s top military officers and told them their job is to root out “the enemy from within” — meaning, Americans — and that we should use the streets of American