With National Guard troops and Marines being deployed across the country, our democracy is at risk — The South Dakota Standard

With National Guard troops and Marines being deployed across the country, our democracy is at risk — The South Dakota Standard

It has been 60 years since National Guard troops were last deployed to any state against the wishes of that state’s governor. In the 1960s, during the Civil Rights revolution, Alabama Gov. George Wallace tried to forcibly obstruct the court-ordered integration of the University of Alabama.Most Americans seemed to accept the necessity of federal intervention in that instance, but we can be glad that it did not continue to happen in other situatio…