The generals were never in positions to keep Trump "in check".

[RandySF]

They would have faced court-martial. That bullshit was simply the excuse of the Republican establishment and Stein voters.

[JHB]

1. Never exclude the Johnson voters, who were 3x the number of Stein voters

Talk to us again about "reasonable Republicans" who were so "reasonable" that they swallowed so much horseshit that they "could not vote for that woman."

[stopdiggin]

2. military leadership has never been in a position to refuse

it's either follow an order or resign. And, yes the "wiser heads" fiction probably held some comfort in the early going .. but that has long since fled the scene.

(The "wiser heads" thing might have actually had some truth in dealing with normal nincompoops that we occasionally have the misfortune to elect.. Reagan, George W., et. al. Trump is in a different category.)

[dalton99a]

3. And the progressive Ivanka will moderate her father.