Banana Republics are looking on with over-awed jealousy. No standard-average tinpot dictator could get away with anything like this.
RE: ....No standard-average tinpot dictator could get away with anything like this.
True. Most Third World dictators know they got there by killings and there is a rebel counterforce grumbling against them and willing to kill the current dictator’s minions. A standoff of sorts.
Not at all true in the US. Dems slander and use lawfare against their political opponents. GOP acts like a lady or gentleman and wouldn’t be so harsh to the Dems.
US Dems use their one sided force against the GOP (using IRS, FBI, CIA, courts, DA’s, Congress and the media).
How true!