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I bet the criteria for being an extremist is not agreeing with everything the state does.
Now is a good time to read Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Also Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism.
Any former Trump supporters ready to eat some humble pie, admit the mainstream critical narrative was right and this guy really is a freedom-hating fascist con artist with no real constructive plans, and work together to save our country?
Venting may feel good but it does more harm than good to your ostensible cause because it makes it trivially easy for those who disagree with you to dismiss you out of hand (which they're probably already very inclined to do to start with). Assuming you're sincere, of course.
> The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”

In other words, those exercising the most fundamental of Constitutional rights.

Copy of the Bondi memo at issue: https://substack-post-media.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/post-...