Returning to Washington, D.C., this week, we saw three soldiers on a street corner near the Washington Monument. The next morning, Carol went out for a run and, one block from our house, saw a car that had been t-boned and totally destroyed by a 14-ton armored military vehicle.

Later that morning, I ran into two soldiers at our subway station. “Where are you guys from?” I asked one of them. “South Carolina National Guard,” he said. “And what do you know about the Washington Metro?” I asked next. “Nothing,” he honestly replied. “It’s the first time I’ve ever been here.” Was that supposed to make me feel safer?

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Occupied Washington. The whole thing is a joke. But a sick and dangerous joke.

There is absolutely no justification for Donald Trump’s military takeover o

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