They listened in dignified and even stone-faced silence to Hegseth and Trump. The opinion of Judge Young and the silence of the generals at Quantico offer some grounds for hope. But military officers and district court judges alone won’t save us. And he implied that troops, like ICE officers, should feel free to use violence against unruly protesters. “If it’s okay with you generals and admirals,” he proposed, “I say: They spit, we hit.”This inflammatory rhetoric provokes exactly the kind of strife Russia wants.