I said long ago, that when law enforcement agencies, Sheriff's departments, big Metropolitan police forces, and your local Officer Friendly were reformed, retrained, or restrained Conservatives would seek to jettison them and create new agencies and empower them to conduct business as usual; i.e. the extrajudicial killing of black people and the ruthless enforcement of a two-tiered justice system which never prosecutes Republicans or rightwingers while bringing the entire weight of the Awesome Power of the State onto anyone who does not help maintain the rigid double standard conservatives have enjoyed since the Founding Fathers wrote the unequal application of Freedom into the Constitution.
You can not use Master's Tools to take down Master's House. When those tools become "broken" conservatives don't redesign the tool itself but simply replace it
Remember how angry white people were when President Barblack Oblackma dared to call a white police officer stupid. Remember how draconian and unconstitutional George W. Bush's Department of Justice acted in spying on Muslims and Anti-War Left groups. Recall how conservatives freaked out when it was legislated Hispanic immigrants could get Driver's Licenses in Illinois? Remember how conservatives who all say you can not trust the government implicitly and vociferously accept and defend every single Police kkkilling of black people or even deify white men who choke the life out of black men?
Republicans have received their coordinated talking points that no in reality it's Joe Biden's Department of Justice which has been weaponized and are all on the page of how they will undo this Woke Department of Justice and unhand cuff Our Police. What Republicans mean is return things to the good old days when Police kept those people in line and were the guard dogs of Plutocracy, White Supremacy and the Patriarchy.
Conservatives have complained for years that "Police" are not hurting the people they are supposed to be hurting. Republicans are more than willing to feed into this false narrative/belief, that Police have become too woke or have been handcuffed from getting those criminals behind bars. Only tough on crime Republicans can restore Law&Order. And that seems to be the main thrust of Ron Phony Bronze Star DeSantis is taking in his quest to win the Presidency.
“We’re not going to let all this power accumulate in Washington, we’re going to break up these agencies,” DeSantis said during a private strategy session over the weekend, excerpts of which were obtained exclusively by RCP. He vowed in that call to order “some of the problematic components of the DOJ” be uprooted, reorganized, and then promptly “shipped to other parts of the country.”
“We’ve seen throughout this country that the DOJ and the FBI are controlled by one faction of our society,” DeSantis said on the call, pointing to how those agencies were “going after pro-life activists,” wrongfully investigating parents at school board meetings “who are concerned about things like critical race theory, and forcing kids to wear masks,” and “colluding with tech companies to censor information such as what they did with the 2020 election.”
I must point out that nothing DeSantis is proposing is in anyway new. Conservatives absolutely adore the unequal application of laws, and the targeting of people for their ideological beliefs. What conservatives hate is when they are subject to their own standard. This is standard Conservative Orthodoxy along with the complaints that starting in the 1960's and accelerating recently the Federal Government isn't doing the job the way it is supposed to. Conservatives believe "The Law" and all Police Agencies exist to punish people they don't like and look the other way at their own offenses. No matter what the offense may be. Observe the absolute ridiculous rightwing defense of the Trump inspired and Republican lead successful attempt to obstruct and delay the transfer of power on January 6th. That, of course, is merely the largest most obvious example of the double standard conservatives demand from law enforcement. Conservatives committing crimes aren't actually committing crimes and even if they are committing crimes those who committed crimes should, if they are conservatives, get away with it.
As I say Fascism isn't coming, it's here... Be prepared.
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