Trump believes in nothing but himself. But like McCarthy and his confederates, the intellectuals behind this repression are true believers. “When the leftist – who does not believe in freedom, who does not believe in civil rights, who does not believe in any ordinary notion of justice – protests that we are violating his rights, understand that he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has perpetrated against him,” Trump’s policy adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech. “We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”

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