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Right the Dems do it in a more orderly less dramatic more routine fashion. BUT and this must be pointed out to liberals they build the scaffolding, the machinery, the apparatus necessary to support this kind of naked brutality that Republicans seek to do. They could instead tear down the scaffolding and apparatus but they don't. They expand it, they give it more money, they give it approval for spyware vendor contracts and access to mass surveillance tools, they give it military gear, training, etc.
They're the cop standing back looking the other way while his buddies beat you with truncheons.
I'll never forget Obama signing some law "with reservations", or something like that. Maybe it was one of the spy ones? He might have actually done it with a few now that I think about it. But the point was, he expressed concerns, but still signed the damn thing, and of course it's been used by Trump to do heinous shit.
Found it. It allowed indefinite detentions.
Dems build the mechsuit, then hand off the keys to the republicans who put a big klan hood on it and take it out for a spin while they stand aside shaking their heads to show that they disapprove