David French
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They don't have those touch points with the federal government.
And so there's just been less ways for the federal government to get at some of these more progressive nonprofits.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
In a worst-case scenario, the type of investigations they could be doing could be โ I just โ You know, this is the first administration in my lifetime where you say it could be worse than my actual worst-case scenario.
You know, in other words, when I was sitting here thinking about Trump's second term โ
I did not have in my mind launching an illegal war and then committing war crimes in the middle of an illegal war, blowing up shipwrecked survivors.
Something that is so black and white basic in the rule of law that it's an actual example in the law of war manual of an order that members of the military should refuse.
Like it's literally in black and white.
I can tell you the page, 1,088, Tim, page 1,088.
It's right there in black and white.
or sending people off to be tortured with no due process in an El Salvador.
I mean, the darkness of this administration is beyond anything I've ever seen.
And so, you know, what they would do to target progressive nonprofits and just simply label them Antifa so that, you know, somebody on Fox or Newsmax or OAN says, look at Trump targeting Antifa terrorists.
I just don't think there's, you can really put much of anything past him.
Oh, and when you're talking about targeting quote-unquote extreme views, one thing we've already seen from the MAGAverse is targeting religious institutions that minister to
that minister to migrants who've crossed the border.
In other words, fulfilling Christian commands to take care of refugees and strangers in your midst.
And we've seen Paxton, attorney general and Senate candidate in Texas, target nonprofits, religious nonprofits founded by Catholics who minister to people who are in this country, which is one of the most basic and elementary Christian commands that exists.
Now, I don't know, you know, when the Catholic bishops got together and they condemned Christians