President James Madison, the father of the Constitution, was opposed to the creation of a standing army.

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty,” he argued. “The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home…”

Well, we have an overgrown Executive. And now, with troops assembled on the streets of Washington DC, we’re inching closer to a tyranny at home.

And that, apparently, is okay with Rep. James Comer, R-TheFrankfortLoop, chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, who has seemingly taken the lead in the GOP’s defense of President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops willy-nilly to wherever his malignant muse might send them.

Th

See Full Page