"Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy. But more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out. These people don't have uniforms. But we are under invasion from within. We're stopping it very quickly."
"In a speech to military officials, President Trump offered some of his most explicitly fascist remarks yet. He said America is under invasion from within, that the generals in the room will be enlisted in a war against that enemy, and that U.S. cities should be used as military training grounds. We think this is Trump's most explicit declaration yet that he sees large swaths of America as themselves constituting a kind of enemy nation within our borders."
President Trump declared that America is "under invasion from within," equating domestic political opponents with a foreign enemy and emphasizing their invisibility because they "don't wear uniforms." The speech urged enlistment of military leaders to confront that internal enemy and suggested using U.S. cities as military training grounds. The rhetoric erases the line between foreign and domestic threats and adopts authoritarian, militarized language. Longstanding right-wing tropes about internal enemies are being amplified, intensifying grievance-based politics and normalizing the framing of large groups of fellow citizens as existential threats.
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