If you read The Atlantic’s article on the general as a legacy-saving hagiography, it makes much more sense. Share
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 […]
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