Putting People In Very Bad Positions

Compare and contrast:

Hertling said that there will be many National Guard soldiers who have day jobs that they'll be forced to leave to walk around Washington.

"There are going to be some who are going to be asked to do things. If they are asked to do things that they know are not right, the leaders can stand before them and say, 'Hey, that's an illegal order. We can't do that,'" he continued. "But when you put an 18 or 20-year-old caught between hearing someone say, 'This is what you're supposed to do,' and their commander saying, 'No, no, no, that's an illegal order, you put people in very bad positions."

He harkened back to Esper's comment about shooting citizens in the legs.

"I've got to tell you, there are no soldiers that I have ever worked with that would actually do that. They think that's crazy," he also said.

Consider the situation of the Texas Democrats. Unlike Abbott, Paxton, and Cornyn, their kinds are part-time: 6 months every two years. Their day jobs pay the bills. Except when they’re breaking quorum. And now they are in other states, walking around avoiding crazies calling in bomb threats.Bacon Austin, they’re being asked to do things they know aren’t right.

And they wouldn’t be in that position, if it wasn’t as directly due to Trump as it is for those NG soldiers.