What’s remarkable about this piece is the absence of any reference to how those trends will impact the growth of government surveillance powers.
Now is not the time for Jeffries or any other Democrats, especially Senate Democrats, to go weak in the knees over shutdown politics.
Week by week and step by step, Trump is creating his own list of "subversives"--organizations, individual people, even entire American cities.
Senate Democrats must internalize the reality of the existential threat Trump represents to the survival of the constitutional Republic and then act accordingly.
Not since the Federalists controlled the White House and Congress at the end of the 18th century have we seen this kind of systematized, lock-step domestic political repression perpetrated in unison by the political branches of our government.