Comment by mjamesaustin
5 days ago
Joe Biden did nothing remotely comparable to what Trump is doing now.
And unlike Trump, Biden faced constant criticism from within his party. He would have faced outrage if he tried to, for example, cancel all federal grants containing the word "conservative" in them.
Meanwhile we're heading towards a future where Trump can deport anyone he doesn't like to an El Salvadorian prison without so much as a trial, regardless of whether they broke any laws. Why doesn't this terrify people on the right?
The people I've talked to just don't believe it can happen to them. They're going through the normal immigration channels, only getting abortions when medically necessary, and limiting their anti-Trump speech to the few quibbles they have here and there. They don't realize that the deportations aren't just the "bad" immigrants, even medically necessary abortions are being stymied by the current administration (with predictable deaths), and that any anti-Trump rhetoric is dangerous.