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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jun 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Acyn

      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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      Tucker on Milley’s comments: He’s not just a pig. He’s stupid pic.twitter.com/XNxNCBjLHp
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jun 2021

      2. To be very specific, the focus of the right's ire is on the military leadership. This is what I'd call the Rambo trope: "the troops are good, they want to win, it's the goddamn pencil neck bureaucrats in the Pentagon that are the problem."pic.twitter.com/MaNtm0s0sl

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jun 2021

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jun 2021

      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 @lionel_trolling) of Dreyfus affair.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jun 2021

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jun 2021

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jun 2021

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jun 2021

          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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        2. Brad Morrison‏ @bradmoreso 25 Jun 2021
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          I agree that the tactic might be to try to cower the military. I also believe that the military is known for bravery, to the point of laying down one's actually life. So... They'll just roll over? Give in? I can't believe that, & 1000s of unbelievable bits have occurred recently.

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        3. Mr A$AP Verflucht Esq.‏ @verflucht 25 Jun 2021
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          Nothing is impossible, as I’m slowly learning. Imagine how you could transform the military by strategically replacing leaders with followers.

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        2. Bruce Lund‏ @BruceLund4 25 Jun 2021
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          This is an outside the US mindset. Military was against being used as a political prop. No one was ever seriously entertaining martial law.

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        3. Leaha‏ @LeahaSla 26 Jun 2021
          Replying to @BruceLund4 @HeerJeet

          I'm not so sure what some could be persuaded to to. That's why Military sent letter right before 1/6. Last summer T. tried to send in military to protests & had to be talked out of it by Barr, Esper & Milley.

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