And I agree they are just chomping at the bit to do that with everyone and to some degree their fellow travelers already do.
They are the brown shirts of our age. The shout-down squad. Those that obsess with finding and dehumanizing those that utter heresies against their growlingly ridiculous doctrines.
Indeed if they succeed nobody is safe from them, not even their own fellow revolutionaries. As Gandalf warned Saruman "and he does not share power". The coming Stalin will not share power either should the fools win.
In the meanwhile we must of necessity not exaggerate the danger lest we let more fools be brain washed by our silence. We have to risk the wrath of the brown shirts both social and career wise. So its not entirely a bad thing for one to take comfort in the fact that for the moment they may be just too small a potato. But you are right to warn them that they ought speak up before the small potatoes are thrown in the pot.
Yes. This is bigger than a Presidential candidate with an outsized ego and an eccentric or crooked attorney we don’t think highly of.
Because if the forces we have come to collectively refer to as “The Deep State” can do this to Trump, Lin, or some schlubs who thought they could go into the Capitol Bulding because...the doors were held open for them by guards...then they can do it to anyone, no matter how important you are, like General Michael Flynn, or how un-important you are...
Like you...
Or me.