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As 75 Democrats Vote to Praise ICE, Ilhan Omar Wants to Hold Police Accountable for Protest Abuses (theintercept.com)

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Trying to pass laws to defend protesters’ rights is a lonely battle on Capitol Hill.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's plenty of Reaganites that drank the Kool aid, and when you're rich as shit you don't see all the actual effects on the country, just the line going up.

Eventually though, some of them see the government doing fascism and and realize it's what they've been screeching about for forty years, even if they can never admit to themselves the part they played in creating it.