We now learn that the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security has officially categorized Trump supporters -- the so-called members of MAGA -- as "domestic terrorists." Additionally, the FBI has formed a secret task force that appears nonpartisan, but actually operates in unprecedented ways that depart from prior focus on cells, anarchist, militia and violence-prone groups, and now focus on people who may be peaceful but identify with anti-government and anti-authority thinking. FBI sources acknowledge that these new categories and task force have been created to target MAGA and Trump supporters.
Not coincidentally, Hillary Clinton has reappeared just as this new information surfaces in a lengthy Newsweek article by William Arkin. In media interviews she labels Trump supporters a cult, and suggests that there needs to be "a formal deprogramming of these cult members." Hillary must favor a police state, as it’s the only way such a mass deprogramming could be undertaken.
The Patriot Act, which was enacted on October 26, 2001, created new laws and protocols to thwart another 9/11 external terrorist attack. Passed with some haste after 9/11, the Patriot Act also introduced what would become a slippery slope of internal political weaponization of the legal system, the FISA courts, and the three-letter federal agencies -- reinforced by the legacy and social media -- resulting in American citizens being denied protection under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. This trajectory, unchanged, surely leads to a police state.
So great are the depth and breadth of America’s problems now that most people feel that the relatively free America that we took for granted may be irretrievably lost. And because of the secular nature of the scribes of history, the more important and more consequential stories that account for both America’s rise and success into the mid-twentieth century, but also account for our decline and failure that ensued right up to the present, are unlikely to be told.
So here are the most important parts of that story: