Yesterday, a MAGAt from Utah was killed during a raid by FBI agents, after he had made repeated and credible threats against Joe Biden, who is visiting Utah soon.
For all the bullshit talk about "politicizing the DOJ" to go after career criminal Donald Trump, the real politicization of law enforcement is the political decision to treat people like Craig Robinson with unusual deference. Beginning with Amon Bundy, law enforcement has decided that another "Ruby Ridge" or "Waco" isn't worth the risk. Therefore they don't actually treat these people the same way they would a Black person who wanders into a public park with a loaded weapon.
Increasingly and especially after 1/6, law enforcement is stepping up surveillance and interdiction of people like Robinson, because we now know that they constitute a "clear and present danger" to civic order. As Marshall notes above, the rhetoric coming from people like Robinson could be lifted from Trump's social media, Fox's White Power Hour or any random House member's fundraising emails.
To a certain degree that I don't think we've internalized, we are in the midst of a very low level insurgency that started in January 6th, 2021. It will spike again as Trump faces justice. That is absolutely not a reason to avoid prosecuting him; it is in fact the best reason to do so.
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