“When we retired, we chose to return to the states. Clearly in my mind, this sort of thing — the Hopkins affair of which Taibbi writes — was for me a clear premonition.”
Seems to have been a good decision. Although we have much the same starting to occur here in the States.
One thing that ticks me off the most concerning the actions of the “powers that be” over the past couple of years, is the double standard of justice being implemented in the prosecution of the January 26th trespassers. The left would have (and have in the past) received trespassing notices for similar actions. And even those were usually dismissed. Remember the leftists and their antics during the Kavanaugh hearings. Not a one suffered any consequences and certainly none were thrown into jail.
And the GOPe remains silent.
I think it might take some unusual events to spawn positive changes. But we certainly are seeing the beginning as we watch San Francisco, wherein a Democrat mayor, with a Democrat Board of Supervisors, a state with Democrat governor, super majority in the legislature and two Democrat senators, that mayor has taken aim at Biden. "Not doing enough." As San Francisco goes through its fiscal collapse.
I think events will force many politicians' hands. Ben Stein's law say that which cannot continue, will not continue. I think this will turn out the case. When and why the hysterical want us to panic and stampede is exactly the when and why we should NOT.