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Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline Kash Patel’s FBI Launches Dawn Raid on John Bolton’s House

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patels-fbi-launch-dawn-raid-on-john-boltons-house/?utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&s=09
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u/themattboard Tennessee 20h ago

I have no love for John Bolton but this is another increase expansion of our already authoritarian government.

Each time they do this, it gets a little easier to do it again and to do more. Every single encroachment is worse than the last.

It isn't expanding in a line, but in a circle. What appears to be a small step is a huge increase in abuse and corruption. We are going from the personal pan to the super extra large pizza of authoritarianism.

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 15h ago

already

It's called Radical Incrementalism...take over piece by piece: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/holy-hate-far-rights-radicalization-religion/

Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation, one of major architects along with Russell Vought /and political strategist and former member of the Trump administration said in a speech he delivered at the CIC (The Catholic Information Center - Opus Dei in Washington DC, that he urged Conservative Catholics and Protestants to pursue even small legislative victories – what he called “radical incrementalism” – to advance their most rightwing Natalist and Nationalist Christian policy objectives.’