23 October 2025

America’s Real Enemy Within

KORI SCHAKE

By politicizing the US military and deploying it at home for his partisan purposes, US President Donald Trump has created a clear and present danger to American democracy. Americans would do well to remember why the country's founders worried so deeply about this very threat.

WASHINGTON, DC – Since its founding almost 250 years ago, the United States has been uniquely fortunate that its military has never once become a threat to its democracy. But that could now change because President Donald Trump is trying to use the military – and the men and women who serve in it – as a cudgel against his political adversaries, whom he describes as “the enemy from within.”

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