SheebIf you're going to consider the idea of and then accept the premise of and then place virtually zero limits on the concept of armed state agents (violently) kidnapping people off the streets for no verifiable reason, giving those same agents wide leeway to conjure excuses for that detention, after the fact, while clearing those agents of all alleged wrongdoing ahead of time, then it becomes extremely hard to argue against that concept being improperly deployed by political enemies down the line.
These were always "tools" of domination, dating back to the original days of colonial expansion and land theft - applied most readily against indigenous "hostiles" and the enslaved. Their application was never predicated on consent or on some kind of social contract or even steeped in a notion of shared safety. It was always about power. And in the context of unchallenged White Supremacy, the only "rule" that applies is the need to affirm the structure that supports the power.
And now, genocide has been (re)deployed as a means by which those structures can be supported in the service of white supremacist, oligarchic interests. The implications of which should be logically terrifying. But as evidenced by the last election in the United States where genocide had unchallenged bipartisan consensus, Americans simply do not grasp the gravity of their own actions and see Trump's hostilities as a break from the norm rather than an affirmation of their very identity.
The split personality of Americans -
The most peace-loving, pro-democratic cohort on planet Earth with the largest, most violent and most expansive military empire (and internal security apparatus) in human history.
To put the finest point on it possible
Every time Democrats flexed their tough guy bona fides at the border, or attacked "defund" while calling for *more* police funding, or bemoaned crime-ridden cities, or talked about having the most lethal military in the world, or celebrated deportation levels, they were creating the conditions and financing the infrastructure for Trump's domestic assault on urban centers. You don't get to dabble in fascism and then complain when things get out of hand.
This is the lesson for the next election:
The person you're voting for - are their policies pro-fascism? If so, that means they're a fascist. And if you're voting for them, guess what that makes you...
Your electeds and your fellow constituents are either standing against fascism or they are authorizing and supporting it irrespective of whatever finely-tuned, respectable "level" of fascism they're shooting for.
Make your choice.