What If the Band Refuses to Play?

Imagine taking the grand stage, expecting music, and then suddenly without any warning — the band refuses to play.

Stone cold silence.

According to early reports, that’s apparently what happened this morning at the Trump Wolf’s Lair, a gathering of 800 top military leaders summoned by the current crackpot regime which was held in Quantico. I wondered how these generals and assorted military brass who flew to the nation’s capital from all over the world would react to this unprecedented mandatory test-trial of a loyalty oath. I do feel great sympathy for these decorated military leaders, now forced into the excruciating decision over their careers and everything they’ve worked for (and rightly earned) *versus* becoming political mercenaries carrying out orders to go after their fellow Americans in a looming domestic conflict unseen since the Civil War. We’ve reached that point, right now.

The answer to this question may have revealed itself on this glorious Tuesday morning. Seventy years ago, it was the American military who stood up to the bullying of right-wing zealot Joseph McCarthy and effectively ended his witch hunts during the Army hearings. Fifty years ago, congressional Republicans may have saved America from the worst insecurities of Nixon. Today, it might be these generals doing much the same —– throwing up a gauntlet against Trump. Too early to tell–yes, of course. But this was encouraging, and a much-needed beacon of hope that perhaps we’ll make it through this idiocracy after all.

I was EXTREMELY PROUD to read this early report, of the military leaders choosing to remain loyal to the U.S. Constitution and refusing to go along with this MAGA madness. I didn’t write this (and I’d credit the author, if I knew the source *), but it’s an excellent summation of what happened today: