Since the inevitable comparisons to the Nazis are going to be made here is where there is a line. Germany in the early 1930’s had a whole bunch of veterans from The Great War that felt they did not lose the war. They felt unfairly blamed for the war and the Versailles Treaty was still fresh on their minds. The Wehrmacht at that point was a skeleton of its Great War size, BUT, and this is key, they had grievances a mile long against France and Britain. You had the necessary ingredients for Hitler to be able to have a military that pledged allegiance to him, especially so because he had served in that war. Revenge was still on the minds of those soldiers and the children who had to hear for their entire life to that point that Germany needed to gain revenge against those countries and a centuries old scapegoat of the Jews.
Our military is not suffering from a crisis in the confidence of itself or the values it is sworn to uphold. The United States military owes nothing to the con man, its idiot and racist defense secretary or any of the rest of them. We have a military built upon 250 years of weathering two wars with England, a Civil War, two world wars and now 80 years past that still being the dominant force in the world. It is built to weather morons like Trump. People routinely make fun of the Marines and their supposed lack of intellect. I’ll take that marine and his commanding officers and their vow to protect us. Our politicians will fail us continually like they are now, but our military I have zero qualms about trusting them. Push comes to shove they still have the big guns, tanks and planes and the orange con man has only his own plane and his cadre of secret service guards to try and overtake that. To that I say good luck.