Fascism comes at you pretty fast

Friday morning I wrote that the fascist tactics being used to ethnically cleanse the country would eventually be turned against citizens. A few hours later we had the breaking news that the FBI raided the home of prominent Trump critic John Bolton under the pretense of national security. The current head of the FBI is an anti-FBI QAnon conspiracy theorist who was placed in charge of the FBI in order to transform it from a professional law enforcement agency into a tool to persecute his list of political enemies.  That is why the agency is being purged of anyone believed to be insufficiently loyal to our Dear Leader or who worked on the prosecution of the now pardoned violent mob of insurrectionists who attempted to overthrow our government on January 6, 2021. To further the goal of transforming the agency into a Trump political weapon, they are lowering the standards and reducing the amount of training necessary to become an agent from 18 weeks to 8 weeks. That's in addition to replacing actual professional leadership with law enforcement expertise with conservative influencers.

And Supreme Leader for life Trump is also now proclaiming that he has the authority to order his political enemies investigated and arrested because he is "actually the chief law enforcement officer."* Ordering arrests and investigations is not a power that the US presidency has (for obvious reasons) but that's the point: we no longer have a president, we have an authoritarian ruler who will continue to expand and consolidate his power and nothing short of total control over our lives will satiate his ego. And given the nature of the structure of the way he tells his lies, when he says he did not order the Bolton raid it means that he most likely did order the Bolton raid.

*He also has proclaimed himself the embodiment of the federal government and the States have to thus obey him. Again, presidents do not have the powers of divine monarchs where they are considered the living embodiment of the government; and their word is not law. As I was saying, the structure of how he lies tells you what he actually means - when he said he'd only be a dictator for one day it meant he intended to be a dictator forever.