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I'm not sure I follow. Opinion polls at the time showed that a significant majority of the public wanted the military sent in.


Most of the coverage I saw was people horrified at the constitutional implications of the military being turned on US citizens, on US soil, by order of the president.


I mean, there just aren't any constitutional implications - it happened in 1992 with no lasting repercussions.


There are constitutional implications to the use of the Insurrection Act against largely peaceful demonstrations, like the ones in DC at the time it was invoked.

The First Amendment does not protect riots, but it does protect protests outside the White House.


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