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If you can't trust the military who is sworn and trained to honor the Constitution, you've started the split into warring camps, neither able to work with the other and subject to whoever can lead them. You've lost a united military. How do you think service men and women are going to be treated by their fellow soldiers when it comes to light they are being punished for having the wrong political opinions? Do their fellow soldiers rally behind them in defiance of Quid Pro or do we start weeding out the undesirables with each new administration?That has nothing to do with the way the military is being politicized.They are supposed to support the Constitution, not a party or person. This is a pivotal moment, though, in the military's history when it is apparent that they are being assigned or removed from a detail based on their political opinions. It's a bad, bad precedent to set.– the United States military – has chosen sides.
Another lie. The military support the Constitution.
The dangerous precedent was one branch of our Government sending an enraged mob to the Capitol to stop another branch of our government from the Constitutional function/duty that the Joint Session of Congress was carrying out. If this reaction to that violence looks bad, blame it on Trump's violent opposition to the lawful transfer of power.
Vetting them to determine if they have ties to the insurgent groups that attacked Congress during the EC vote count is a prudent idea and is nothing like a swearing a loyalty oath to a dictator. That is something that the outgoing President demanded from those around him. Good old Joe, not so much.
Sorry champ the groups that attacked the Capitol did more that have a different political opinions when they launch the assault to shut down the EC vote count and to hunt down members of Congress for some kind of summary retribution. Ferreting out those traitors, if there are any, wont be a problem.