It was only a few months ago that National Guard troops arrived in the streets of downtown New Orleans.
Armed with rifles and dressed in fatigues, their presence was a show of force following the Bourbon Street terror attack, aimed at calming fears as the city prepared to host the Super Bowl.
Now, city residents and civic leaders are reckoning with the likely return of those soldiers as part of President Donald Trump’s latest move to suggest that stopping crime in Democratic-led cities requires military help…