On Tuesday, Donald Trump stood in front of more than 800 generals and admirals in the U.S. military and informed them of their new enemy: their fellow Americans.

“Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies — foreign and domestic,” Trump said. “You know that phrase very well. That’s what the oath says: foreign and domestic. Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush, and others all used the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace. … Now they like to say, Oh, you’re not allowed to use the military. ”

Trump went on, in that speech, to refer to both “the enemy from within,” and a new war — “a war from within” — that generals would be asked to fight in.

In case there was any ambiguity about which enemies

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