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It's irrelevant, but it's quite apparent that the establishment is using what's relatively a minor event* to put into motion the crack downs they've wanted to do for years.

Seeing the Twitter mob, composed not only of the usual subjects, but also major media members, celebrities, and politicians outright push for restrictions and "punishments" for anyone who has ever shown support for Trump is terrifying. The left has become the true fascists they've always pretended they were fighting. It's a small step from here to the Bolshevik purges and Chinese Cultural Revolution. Exact same playbook being enacted.

* Congress has been "stormed" many times in US history, as recent as Kavanaugh hearings.



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