How are you not humiliated by your transparent pvssyfooting around the basic questions that I have asked over and over about this federal takeover? I'm not going to respond to you again until you can at least attempt to justify this policy. Variations of "Dems are stupid" and "Crime is bad" are non-answers.
Watch me respond to your dumb*ss question. No, I would not support the federal government declaring a phony "emergency" to deploy the military in D.C. indefinitely just because some poll said people supported it.
If the people voted for it? If there were some specific, ongoing violent event(s) that called for it? If it were done at the request of or in consultation with the District/Local Police with clear guidance about the length and terms of the military deployment? If there were any indication of what, specifically, the military was supposed to be accomplishing? Then we'd be on more solid footing. But nope! All we've got is "Big Balls got mugged! Send in the troops to stop all crime! And do it in every blue city!" Pure fascism.
Now it's your turn. Last chance. Be a man and answer directly.
At what point, specifically, does "crime" merit a declaration of a public emergency, the unprecedented seizure of local law enforcement and use of the military to establish domestic order? In what way does overall crime in D.C. rise to level of a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or out-of-control ongoing riots? What, specifically, needs to happen for this "emergency" to be lifted? Why has this only become an emergency NOW? Even if the crime numbers (which are at 30-year low) are "fake," there has not been any sudden, dramatic increase in crime. It's just a whim! Based on the rationale currently being provided, what prevents this from being used in any city, anywhere, anytime Trump feels like it?