Maybe He’s Compensating for Something

Sue Hirsch
4 min readJun 6, 2020

In her latest article, my good friend, Hannah Miyamoto wrote:

On June 2, more than 2,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division , along with an undisclosed number of paramilitary troops from Border Patrol, Customs, the Bureau of Prisons, among other agencies, were deployed into Washington, D.C. in order to suppress largely peaceful protests in the national capitol. As the Washington Post observed, this is the latest sign of the intention of Donald Trump to use military force to suppress freedom and democracy, and follows his naked threat the day before to…

--

--