But now the state police or city cops can arrest an ICE agent if they identify themselves as such while masked, right? That's s step in the right direction.
Yeah there's no reason to split hairs on nomenclature. When a leader has their opposition taken out and shot, and then imposes a totalitarian regime, their original political affiliation was just a means to an end anyway.
Comparing someone to Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Tojo, Mussolini, the Taliban, etc. isn't primarily to compare them to the societal leanings of their time, it's to compare them to how they acted after they gained total, uncontested power.
Let's hope that in this case those comparisons remain hypothetical.
I went to an Ottawa 67s game the other day. At the one-minute mark it was like "ha ha, this thing" at the two-minute mark I was calculating how much my beer expenditure would have to be to last the whole game.
Still way more productive than the average pet