Thou Art Drafted Into the Gestapo

That would seem to be the prevailing opinion of the National Guardsmen who were drafted into Trump's current episode of "I Wanna Be a Dictator".

The Guardsmen in California viewed their deployment as a domestic verion of Afghanistan: Futile and destined to fail.

That goes for the rest of the Feds: DEA, ATF, FBI, none of those clowns are street cops. Unlike the local cops, they have no working relationship with anyone in the neighborhoods. They are occupiers and they're going to be seen as such.

If the Demented Orange Tinpot Fascist attempts this in other cities, the mayors there have a lot more power. The Feds can't take over the local cops. Plus, the cops in large cities have emmebers imbedded in various Federal task forces and joint operations-- the mayors can yank all of those cops from those duties overnight and, where the Feds are imbedded locally, kick them all out.

Funny thing: Of all the groups on the Right who have been bleating for decades about being ready to fight tyranny and American dictatorial rule, they have not uttered a peep. They've dug a hole and pulled their woobie over themselves.

Also, this: