Dope1: most major news organizations little more than proxies for the DNC...especially in the intelligence and military apparatus, which has openly aligned itself with Democrats. ... When you have the Deep State, you're always in power. ... The Democrats’ ambitions are significantly more dangerous than those of the Republicans. From digital surveillance...

Deep State? Perhaps you and Taibbi have forgotten the warrantless spying by republican President Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks when his administration “secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying.”

The rest of Taibbi's claims are jaw dropping for their cluelessness.

Let's review.

Trump began his campaign in 2016 pushing Birtherism, the racist lie that Obama wasn’t a legitimate president, and on “locking up” Clinton, his presidential opponent.

His own former Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said Trump wanted to shoot protesters engaged in civil unrest.

In 2021, after months of lying about a “rigged" election, Trump assembled a mob in Washington DC and sent them to storm the Capitol, telling them to “fight like hell” or they wouldn't “have a country anymore.” He stood by and did nothing as they tried to find and hang his own vice president.

So Trump has escalated from racism and threats of imprisonment to inciting acts of violence.

On Thursday Trump encouraged violence against the sitting President.

Trump said he will be a dictator on Day One.

Trump's Project 2025 seeks to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to replace existing federal civil service workers to further his objective to give him absolute power over the executive branch.

Trump proposes slashing U.S. Department of Justice funding, dismantling the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, gutting environmental and climate change regulations, and eliminating the cabinet Departments of Education and Commerce.

Project 2025 would seek to immediately invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and direct the DOJ to pursue Trump's adversaries.

Trump would violate current constitutional laws to undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers.

But, sure, idiots like Taibbi claim that it's the democrats who are dangerous.

BOO!

Clearly, the only arrows left in the republicans' quiver are fear and violence.

Wake up. You can't be this stupid.

nytimes.com - Bush lets US spy on callers without courts