It can't happen here, they said. The constitution will protect us, they said. Everything will snap back to normal once he's out of office, they said. This is not normal, they said. This is not who we are, they said. Everything is actually hunky dory, they said. You and you, vote blue no matter who, you and you, we don't care about you, they said.
And we walked right into it while whistling through the graveyard.
We are in a new phase of a dictatorship at this point. Expect more journalist gettingal arrested for "inflaming public sentiments" or "sympathizing with domestic terrorists". And MAGA will keep applauding while Democrats scramble to find an agreeable way to phrase what's going on.
The next phase is the national security apparatus opens live fire on protestors.