There are no “precedents” when the left advances it’s agenda.
If the sky is blue to advance their agenda today, the sky will be proclaimed blue.
If tomorrow, a green sky will advance their agenda, the sky will be green by assertion and media proclamation.
So, they can allow the IRS to target conservatives today, destroy evidence, and run roughshod over people while ‘rats have control of the agency,
and then if the right ever gets a handle on things and there’s even 50.1% of audits being toward left leaning orgs, they can cry abuse and criminalize and punish those involved.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia