Let’s give some credit where credit is rarely due.
In case you missed it, Governor Stitt recently announced that he is opposed to Trump using National Guard troops from other states to occupy liberal strongholds like Washington D.C., L.A., and – coming soon to a cable news station and social media scroll near you – Chicago.
Stitt made the statement in his official capacity as the chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) – a group that seriously voted for him to be their leader.
Via The Washington Post:
Oklahoma’s GOP governor opposes sending out-of-state troops to states that don't welcome them
Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, the chair of the National Governors Association, said Thursday that he opposes sending National Guard troops across state borders without the permission of the state receiving them.
The position from a sitting Republican official posed a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump’s push to send National Guard troops to cities in states where Democrats are in charge, including Chicago, where Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker are fighting in court to try to halt the deployment of Texas Guard members.
Speaking to The New York Times on Thursday, Stitt said, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”
Stitt is a hardcore Republican and literally has a Ph.D. in posturing and hypocrisy, so his stance was a tad surprising.