They’ve been laying the rhetorical basis for a while, conservatives have been harping about the drug crisis, cities overrun by foreign drugs etc for years now. Trump has said many times that there should be the death penalty for drug dealers, arguing that dealing fentanyl or whatever is a form of mass murder. Even in his first term they justified crackdowns on immigrants because they claimed they were cartel members flooding us with drugs to purposely destroy the US. To his supporters it’s a logical step to take direct military action.
They’ve been laying the rhetorical basis for a while, conservatives have been harping about the drug crisis, cities overrun by foreign drugs etc for years now. Trump has said many times that there should be the death penalty for drug dealers, arguing that dealing fentanyl or whatever is a form of mass murder. Even in his first term they justified crackdowns on immigrants because they claimed they were cartel members flooding us with drugs to purposely destroy the US. To his supporters it’s a logical step to take direct military action.