Oddbean

The Newsweek piece on the FBI’s targeting of Trump supporters as terrorists confirms what has long been clear: The Global War on Terror has morphed into a Domestic War on Wrongthinkers. It’s about Regime security, not national security. What's more, by leaking the information it did, The Regime made clear via Newsweek piece that it wants the American people to know it considers up to half the country the enemy. thread 🧵 by Benjamin Weingarten January 13, 2022

2) If you're watching Tucker Carlson and unfamiliar w the Biden admin's first of its kind National Strategy on Countering Domestic Terrorism and where it fits in the admin's broader War on Wrongthink, I've been covering this vital, disturbing topic for the last year. 1/13/21: If you accede to the view that anything that challenges the prevailing progressive orthodoxy constitutes violence, then you will take any means necessary to snuff it out. https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/13/democrats-are-using-the-recent-capitol-riot-to-consolidate-power/ https://x.com/bhweingarten/status/1710262062977323017

The fact that Democrats don't recognize that they've become the perpetuators of the war on terror they used to criticize is really odd. Hell, it seems like the Dems loooove gwb now, and it's right wingers who look back and think his administration was a disaster.