GOP attacks go beyond FBI and elections to delegitimize government

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“Trump fanned that flame when he shared on social media an article titled ‘The Fascist Bureau of Investigation’—an incredible act by a former president.”

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Perspective | GOP attacks go beyond FBI and elections to delegitimize government
The danger to democracy metastasizing from Trump’s refusal to accept defeat has potential risks stretching into federal agencies and their employees.
12:58 PM · Aug 24, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/24/gop-attacks-fbi-doj-government-trump/

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The threat to democracy metastasizing from former president Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat stretches beyond elections and into federal agencies and their employees.

An attempted breach of an FBI office in Cincinnati earlier this month, allegedly by a Trump supporter, resulted in the attacker’s death. That followed angry rhetoric from the former president and Republican politicians after FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

Vitriol by GOP members of Congress — including comparing the federal government to “the Gestapo” of Nazi Germany and proposing to “defund the FBI” — is just the latest example of boiling aggression that extends across the government. Trump fanned that flame when he shared on social media an article titled “The Fascist Bureau of Investigation” — an incredible act by a former president.

But the right-wing anger goes past the law enforcement agency to include scorning feds generally, hitting the Education Department for curriculums it doesn’t control and efforts to improve tax collection.

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1. The radicalized Republican party wants permanent, total control. Democracy is in their way.

The only purpose they see for the federal government is national defense. That's a bit like considering emergency rooms to be sufficient for all health care.

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