May 4, 1970, the day which still lives in infamy, when the National Guard arrived on campus at Kent State and inexplicably shot dead unarmed students.
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| Mary Ann Vecchio with dead Jeffrey Miller, Kent State |
"We should not be afraid. THEY should be afraid," Trump has told his fans.
And this is the way you do that.
Send in the National Guard and shoot a few people as an example to the others.
Nixon called the Kent State students "Bums."
The folks in Kent, Ohio, as James Mitchener documented in his book, "Kent State," thought the university students were worse than that. They thought those students deserved it.
What was incomprehensible to us on that day, that those guard soldiers would hate students enough to shoot them in cold blood, became more comprehensible, as you read through Mitchener's pages: There was deep seeded resentment among the blue collar folk of that town, and their sons, who were in uniform with guns exercised that resentment toward the rich, privileged, pampered students.
Those who would today be called leftist, elitist DEI advocates at universities Trump is trying to transform at best, and destroy at worst.
And so they shot them down.
It was very American, as My Lai attested.
Lyndon Johnson called out the Guard to DC after Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, when city blocks were actually set on fire.
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| Washington, DC 1968: Real Emergency |
Then the Guard appeared with fixed bayonets in dangerous, burning parts of town, during an actual true serious emergency.
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| Guard in DC 1968: Actual Emergency |
Not like now, when they are just strutting around the monuments and the Mall with nothing to do. There is no actual emergency in DC, at least not where the Guard is.
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| Guard in Trump's DC Now |
The Guard is running away from the nasties. They are just there for show.
And now, Mr. Trump sends National Guard to blue cities with the same intent, maybe.
Does he really want to provoke another Kent State?
Thus far, he has behaved only comically.
Friends from DC tell me the Guard patrols only the safest parts of town. They are nowhere to be seen in the actual dangerous parts of DC.
Georgie Porgie
Puddin and pie.
Kissed the girls.
And made them cry.
But when the boys came out to play.
Georgie Porgie ran away.
