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Comment by oenton

8 days ago

> Entering private domiciles without a proper warrant? "Democracy, as the founding fathers intended"

Or my personal favorite, "a mandate."

Interestingly I don't recall any other US President in recent memory (last 30 years) referring to their policies, or more accurately the fact that they won an election, as "a mandate given by the American people."

But you only need to go back a few more decades to find similar phrases used by a certain country's infamous authoritarian regime. Are the frogs boiling yet? It's starting to get really uncomfortable really fast.