The glass-is-half-full take is that the deep state not only allowed Trump to take power in 2016 but didn’t have him killed. That’s no small thing given JFK! And it’s not like this takeover by the FBI happened just recently since even Eisenhower was aghast at it. It’s a beast that has been alive and well since before most of us were born.
On the other hand, the new thing seems to be this worrisome broadening of FBI’s mission statement and the introduction of the novel oxymoronic "Homeland Security".
The 3-letter agencies used to be focused on small-ish groups or individuals (be it wire-tapping MLK or infiltrating the Black Panthers) but seem to have enlarged their scope to roughly 20-30% of Americans.
How else to view the semi-takeover of Twitter pre-Musk and the weird stuff around J6 which included no jail time for Ray Epps, nothing on the bullhorn guy, nothing on the other fellow methodically taking down Capitol perimeter boundaries, nothing on the pipe bomb planter?
This seems to be the story of our time given that in the past the FBI seemed mostly engaged in decapitating or blackmailing leaders in one way or another rather than going to war against a huge number of its own citizens. Perhaps during the Vietnam era the FBI was going after 20-40% of Americans (Vietnam protestors) but maybe not.
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