Watch, If you see Trump and his underlings start to jail protesters or opposition politicians

[UCmeNdc]

then expect the worse.

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

[Skittles]

1. or denying benefits when disasters occur in blue states

the GOP is more vile than ever

[Eleanors38]

2. Uh... that would be the War on Drugs (see Erlichman & Nixon).

Fortunately, the move to legalize now-illegal drugs is gaining strength, so this method of repression (brilliantly executed by Erlichman and Nixon to jail millions of YBMs and anti-war activists) is faltering.

It would be wise to keep tabs of the Posse Comitatus Act, as this was very briefly neutralized by BushCo and Congress, post-Katrina. The provisions of the Act were restored quickly and everyone went back to murmuring that it was just a BackBurner™© issue.

[lou ky dem]

3. More concerned

On an event that will be blamed on the opposition.

[Eleanors38]

4. True, but BushCo's efforts were structural, and would have allowed...

The Unitary State to marshall all military/militia/LEO forces under a central command when in the judgment of the (voila!) president, such consolidation was necessary.

The concern for activists is that they may be singled out for public opprobrium, and then arrested as a signal to others that they should expect the same. This kind of public, official display of repression was little used up to now, save in the Civil Rights struggle. Hence, the use of the WOD as a proxy tool. But now, the FR has succeeded in convincing the public (and many Democrats) that liberal/activists are easily cowed, so a more personal, swaggering method might do the trick.

[Thinkingabout]

5. His puppet master will soon advise him.