After saying just last week that the National Guard troops deployed to Washington would not be carrying guns, the Pentagon on Friday admitted what we all knew was coming—of course they will be carrying guns.

It was always inevitable that President Donald Trump would seek to ratchet up the pressure on the residents of the nation’s capital, who he loathes for being insufficiently white, insufficiently conservative, and insufficiently in thrall to his cult of personality. Part of how you know this was a foregone conclusion is that the administration isn’t even pegging the reversal to any particular incident. Nope, just a vague statement from a Pentagon official saying that “members supporting the mission to lower the crime rate in our Nation’s capital will soon be on mission with their servi

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