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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, December 11, 2021

What Is The "Thinking" Here

 Ron DeSantis is routinely touted as the less insane, less crude, less impulsive Donald Trump.

Ron DeSantis wants to lock up Dr. Anthony Fauci.

So, the "Sane" Wing of the GOP wants to lock up a leading public health expert because...

I worry - with others - that the norm of not locking up political opponents is one that Merrick Garland might be hewing too closely. It seems pretty evident that Trump has committed myriad crimes, even apart from January 6th. However, the entire GOP seems intent on locking up people that they simply disagree with. In much the same way that Democratic states eschew gerrymandering while the GOP runs full speed ahead, Democrats can't unilaterally back down in the face of this authoritarian insanity.

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