Gov. Patrick Morrisey has spent the past nine years trying to let President Donald Trump know that he really, really wants to be his pal.

His latest effort to spit-shine Trump's shoes is his nakedly political decision to send West Virginia National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., where Trump is taking federal control of the city. The president is falsely claiming that crime in the nation's capital is out of control. Crime in Washington took an uptick two years ago. Since then, it's been down. Considerably.

But Trump wants to be a dictator and unleashing military forces on domestic soil for no reason other than to instill fear is what dictators do. Morrisey, naturally, couldn't wait to help.

Unfortunately, this isn't the first time the Guard has been used as a political prop in the Mou

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