1. The American right's turn against the military (as "woke" and beholden to CRT) is a pretty significant development, not without precedent & very specifically focused on officer class, but still something new & pregnant with meaning.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1408216358899183617 …
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3. The Rambo trope all precedes Rambo of course: you see it in Dixiecrat attacks on desegregation of military and in Joseph McCarthy's attack on George Marshall & (suicidally) his attempt to red bait the Pentagon.
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4. It's precisely because the right sees as the military as one of their institutions, something they have possessive ownership of, that they need to police it for ideological & personnel conformity. That's the hidden logic (apologies to
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5. Desegregating the military was controversial because the right (committed to open racism at that point) thought the military belonged to him. Same with fight over open gays in military. Same now: right things military is their property so it can't be woke.
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6. Beyond the right's anxiety of losing control of institution they see as their own, there's other sources of rift: military resistance to Trump's psycho commands & coup attempts, officer class being college educated, general ranks being disproportionately POC.
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7. The most worrying factor is resentment at Milley & top ranks for their unwillingness to obey Trump as he pushed for martial law. This was crucial for the failure of his coup attempts. The goal now is to cow military so they will be more obedient to GOP POTUS in future.
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8. Defeated armies and movements think hard about causes of defeat. Right now the hard right is a defeated movement. They're thinking about what went wrong and realizing they need to cow the military. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-right-versus-the-military?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Reminiscent of the post-Versailles "stab in the back" narrative that German nationalists clung to, that they didn't lose, but their leadership betrayed the army.
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The enlisted made up of the underserved poor and minorities of this country conservatives, with nary a policy to help, hold up as a standard to their assumed righteousness
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Lions led by woke donkeys if you will
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They support the generals who agree with them. They support the troops who agree with them. They don't support the ones who don't agree with them. It's really that simple.
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