The very bluster is enough to shift incredible investments in military, intelligence, and resources with *generational* impacts. Any actual movements in that direction will have exponential impacts. This is lunacy. 2/3

As @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social said on "Washington Week" tonight, "I feel like we're playing Risk on ketamine right now."

All while punishing, libeling, and attacking actual public servants. The power, coercion, weapons have been pointed primarily at the most vulnerable to this point. So a lot of people out there have been quiet, which has the darkly ironic result of making us all more vulnerable to the same. 3/3

The selective deployment of these neo-gestapo clowns is based purely on the arbitrary whims of a regime that is drunk with power, lacking all respect for anything close to rule of law, and extracting every public good for their own personal interests as fast and as completely as they can. 2/3