18:19 - *honk honk*
full damage control mode
We’re at a point where the state can shut down the economy, close schools, jail protesters, and purge the military in the name of public health. No one who accumulates that kind of power simply hands it over to their mortal enemy because fifty-one percent of the plebs say so – and make no mistake, the Left sees red America as an existential threat.
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The political prosecution of dissidents by the Democratic establishment is not a violation of norms, it is the establishment of new norms. A two-tier system with a hierarchy where those that serve the Regime have one set of laws and rights, and those that oppose it have another.