MAGA anticipated a 'soft junta' from the upper brass simply not complying with illegal orders. The military leadership is still classic con enough that that they could plausibly sit out a Civil War on general principles. Now, tho? We're gonna invade Greenland with idiot ROTC level officers.
The sole qualification for the new appointees: They will comply with any order of the President, legal or illegal, without question and without hesitation. Need those ballot boxes seized, Better Call The Trump Military
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Soon they will dismantle the FEC as well, and then USA is officially a dictatorship.
(In that region, though, it was the US backing undemocratic regimes and military atrocities)
Promises made - promises kept.