The riot was Jan 6. It’s now April. Just how long is ‘temporary’? Since there have been no credible threats of organized terrorist plans, just what facts on the ground would change to make the soldiers go home?
And how reasonable is it to keep national guardsmen deployed for such a long time? They aren’t supposed to be a standing army, and many of them are away from jobs and loved ones. You need a damned good reason to keep them deployed, and not just general fears of what ‘the right’ might do.
I think this is political. The Democrats are preparing their ‘domestic extremism’ and gun control bills, and surrounding themselves with soldiers helps them make the case for increased surveillance and disarming of their political enemies.
If I’m right, the ‘threat’ will ease and the soldiers will go home after the bills pass, and the fact of their leaving will be spun as proof that the bill was the right thing to do and now Washington can breathe a sigh of relief and send the soldiers home.
If the soldiers stay, then the Dems are actually paranoid and believe there is some cabal of militias out there ready to invade Washington.