Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) proudly told longtime Trump associate Steve Bannon on his "War Room" podcast that he signed a letter demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel investigate Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as domestic terrorists over a pair of speeches that did not...
This was always the inveitable end result of the cancerous growth of fear mongering around terrorism to a hyperbolic degree post 9/11.
This was always the inveitable end result of the Authorization Of Military Force which broke the brakes on this train.
Liberals helped normalize this, Obama drone striking US citizens, liberals scoffing at pardoning Snowden, the list goes on and on.
Further it is a very disengenous read to act like the FBI hasn’t always been like this, they just weren’t stupid enough to publically advertise their soft spot for conservative political and cultural authoritarianism in the past.
Conservatives deserve the bulk of the blame, but we have to be careful to also blame those that pretended to be in opposition to this kind of thing while slowly normalizing dangerous rightwing narratives.