It’s remarkable how often protecting “democracy” from the clutches of Donald Trump means engaging in anti-democratic activities.
“The Patriot: How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump” is Jeffrey Goldberg’s 6,500-word ode in The Atlantic to the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Although the article also suffers from cloying revisionism, its biggest flaw is failing to provide a single instance proving its proposition—quite the contrary.
Here is Goldberg:
A plain reading of the record shows that in the chaotic period before and after the 2020 election, Milley did as much as, or more than, any other American to defend the constitutional order, to prevent the military from being deployed against the American people, and to forestall the eruption of wars with America’s nuclear-armed adversaries.
Yet not even The Atlantic’s retelling of Milley’s heroic tale offers any evidence that Trump attempted to escalate tensions with any “nuclear-armed adversaries,” or anyone else, to provoke an “eruption of wars” or any conflict before or after the election chaos of 2020. Or even that Milley dissuaded him from trying.
Say what you want about Trump, but his alleged capitulation to a nuclear-armed adversary in Russia was one of the top reasons we were told he was unfit to be president. The entire Russian “collusion” deception, a favorite of The Atlantic magazine, was predicated on that belief.
While Trump didn’t launch any nukes, Milley, caught up in the hysterics of the election, did make two phone calls to our
