Is America Turning Into a Military State? The Shocking Truth Behind Trump’s Troops on Our Streets!

Ever get that feeling when something sounds way more dramatic than it actually is — like a fire alarm blaring because someone burnt toast? Well, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker isn’t tapping the panic button lightly. He’s raising one heck of an alarm over an unprecedented plan to station 600 National Guard troops ready to roll into Chicago at a moment’s notice. Talk about a full-on military setup for what’s being painted as an “emergency.” It’s like watching a suspense movie where the villain’s threat feels just a tad over the top, except this time, it’s happening on our own turf—and it’s sparking serious debates about legality, constitutionality, and what it means to overstep power in today’s America. The image of a lone soldier standing guard at the Lincoln Memorial? It’s less a sign of real danger and more a snapshot of an imaginary crime wave whipped up for effect. So, what’s really going on beneath these heavy-handed moves? Is this a necessary step for safety or a step way too far into uncharted—and unsettling—territory? Let’s dig in and unpack the saga that’s got more layers than your typical Instagram wellness post. LEARN MORE.

“If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm—one that I hope every person listening will heed, both here in Illinois and across the country,” the governor said. Such a deployment, he said, “is exactly the type of overreach that our country’s founders warned against—and it’s the reason they established a federal system with a separation of powers built on checks and balances. What President Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted. It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. And it is un-American.”

That was, courtesy of The Washington Post, Illinois Governor JB Pritkzer reacting to a Post story over the weekend that reported the administration’s preparations for a full-scale military incursion into Chicago. It’s based on yet another spurious claim of a crime emergency similar to the ones Trump dreamed up in Los Angeles and Washington. The photo accompanying the story, of a soldier standing post at the Lincoln Memorial with nobody else around, says more about the president’s imaginary crime wave than anything else would.

A story from the Post earlier this month warned of what was to come.

[The Trump administration’s] plan calls for 600 [National Guard] troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as little as one hour, the documents say. They would be split into two groups of 300 and be stationed at military bases in Alabama and Arizona, with purview of regions east and west of the Mississippi River, respectively. … The proposal, which has not been previously reported, represents another potential expansion of President Donald Trump’s willingness to employ the armed forces on American soil. It relies on a section of the U.S. Code that allows the commander in chief to circumvent limitations on the military’s use within the United States.

The Trump administration is relying on a shaky legal theory that the president can act broadly to protect federal property and functions, said Joseph Nunn, an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice who specializes in legal issues germane to the U.S. military’s domestic activities. “You don’t want to normalize routine military participation in law enforcement,” he said. “You don’t want to normalize routine domestic deployment.”

Well, Nunn may not want to do that, and I don’t want to do it, but the president and whatever subordinate Mussolinis who have his ear certainly want to do it. And Pritzker knows it.

“No one from the White House or the executive branch has reached out to me or to the mayor. No one has reached out to our staffs. No effort has been made to coordinate or to ask for our assistance in identifying any actions that might be helpful to us. Local law enforcement has not been contacted. We have made no requests for federal intervention. None.”

This curious passage sounds for all the world like one of those letters written by political prisoners explaining that they would not kill themselves in captivity, no matter what the authorities might tell the people in case of their unfortunate demise. Pritzker knows that we now live in a country of Reichstags.