Poll: Most Americans say military should be apolitical and face only ‘external threats’

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Poll: Most Americans say military should be apolitical and face only ‘external threats’
Fifty-eight percent of all adults surveyed in a new poll said that Trump should only deploy the military against 'external threats.'
Drew F. Lawrence

Published Oct 8, 2025 5:54 PM EDT
 
Most Americans believe the president should only deploy service members to face external threats and that troops and their leaders should steer clear of politics, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

The poll, which surveyed both Republicans and Democrats and ran over a five-day period starting last week, is the latest sign of public discomfort over President Donald Trump’s deployments of National Guard — and some active-duty troops earlier this summer — to police American cities whose elected leaders are Democrats.


Seventy-two percent of Democrats believed the military should only be used to combat threats outside of the U.S., according to the poll. They were joined in that view by a slim majority of Republicans at 51% who shared the same belief. Among all adults in the poll, including those without a party affiliation, 58% told the pollster that Trump should only deploy the military against external threats.

Trump deployed federalized National Guard troops and active-duty Marines to Los Angeles starting over the summer. Since then, the administration has been ramping up troop deployments to American cities, drawing ire and immediate lawsuits from the Democratic leaders who run them.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/poll-cities-national-guard/

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Most people who have some knowledge of American History are aware leaders have thought from the earliest days, America was not likely to be defeated from the outside, if it fell, it would be from the inside.  It is under attack now, but the brains, money, and direction are from the outside in mainly democrat-controlled cities.  It is necessary to fight communist proxies in those cities who are stirring the emotions of the uneducated, unthinking, unreasoning, "mostly peaceful" rioters who have those cities under attack.  Since democrats have shown no enthusiasm for protecting America, it is necessary to use troops to preserve our freedom from them and legacy media.