Since returning to power, Donald Trump has relentlessly sought to reshape the federal law enforcement agency. In his eyes, it is guilty of investigating him and people close to him. He has set out to bring it to heel by firing dozens of agents.
Next thing you know they will be spying on people and influencing precrime “criminals” to become real criminals so that they can keep their money coming.
These transgressions that happened in a manged controlled fashion to solve specific thorny problems … made it possible for a cynical opportunist to claim this happens all the time so we should own it.
Exactly how corruption spreads in a society. The sense that everyone else is doing it and you’re a chump if you’re not.
Oh yeah, wow. It would be terrible for the FBI to become authoritarian. What a strange and totally twisted way to run a national police force…
Next thing you know they will be spying on people and influencing precrime “criminals” to become real criminals so that they can keep their money coming.
Oh wait.
These transgressions that happened in a manged controlled fashion to solve specific thorny problems … made it possible for a cynical opportunist to claim this happens all the time so we should own it.
Exactly how corruption spreads in a society. The sense that everyone else is doing it and you’re a chump if you’re not.