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Who Would Support Deploying the Military to Domestic Protests?
The military’s professional norms are a check against a potential abuse of power.
Editor’s Note: Former President Donald Trump has promised to deploy the military to fight crime, stop protesters, and otherwise play a policing role. As Lindsay Cohn argued recently in this outlet(based on scholarly work with Jessica Blankshain and Danielle Lupton), expansive domestic deployments could undermine the legitimacy of key institutions in the eyes of U.S. citizens. The majority of these officers favored aggressive responses to protests—for example, sending in riot police armed with assault rifles and body armor—but felt it was inappropriate to deploy the military.
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