The Democrats have gone out of their way plenty to chill dissent and actively expand the police state, but let’s see how this budget discussion goes. Besides their own nefarious actions abroad with the wars and persecution of journalists and whistleblowers and whatnot, I see the myriad of inventive ways the Democrats use to “steal defeat from the jaws of victory”, and this forms a clear composite picture of deliberate collaboration. That could change, but right now I see both political parties playing “good cop/bad cop”, both political parties intent on normalizing paramilitary secret police in the streets.