To be fair Bush started the ball rolling in this direction. Did it occur to anyone that the Democrats would push this agenda 10 times further?
Better equipped and better financed than our military.
He intensified it, for sure. The roots go further back, though. From what I understand, federal agencies began lobbying for their own internal police forces as early as the end of the Eisenhower administration, and after the tumult of the 1960’s, things were headed in the direction we see today.
Somebody did mention that at the time about democrats being there some day. Party of stupid meet party of evil.