What Game Is Trump Playing With the National Guard?

It is hard to say when, exactly, the militarization of American life began. Troops have marched through towns and cities for centuries, called upon, at various points, to menace civilians or violently suppress protests. Fifty-five years ago, National Guardsmen shot and killed four unarmed college students at Kent State University; the troops had arrived to choke off protests against the Vietnam War. One dark question hanging over the nation today, as Donald Trump begins to flood more and more Democrat-run cities with National Guard troops and ICE agents, is how close we are coming to another Kent State. In Chicago, Customs and Border Patrol agents shot and wounded a woman, though they alleged she and at least one other person rammed cars into vehicles carrying federal authorities. Will m