The ambush attack on two National Guard troops in D.C. Wednesday is horrifying. But it is not surprising.

President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in a bid to quell protests over ICE arrests and/or fight crime in major cities has been a flashpoint since the first boots hit the ground. And political pushback against Trump’s move featured the favorite buzzwords of the left: fascist, dictator, authoritarian.

The National Guard were not just men and women serving our country, they were part of the hated Trump “regime.”

When the Guard was deployed in LA this summer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told a September hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, “We cannot let the military become a political weapon to intimidate our communities.”

She was hardly alone in depicting the Guar

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