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There is a nice list of invocations of the Insurrection Act here. You can see that it has had three major historical uses: to fight riots, to stop racist violence, and to violently suppress strikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807#Invocations

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He is a opportunist. The racists and haters and egos in US History, like Dulles and LBJ committed greater crimes. Trump just used the avg racist's emotions to win popularity.

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