Susan Rice, Obama's UN ambassador, has gone public with a threat to every company, campus, and government employee who can credibly be accused of cooperating with the Trump agenda. Her threat: we will make your life as miserable as the law allows when we Dems return to power. Margolis accurately calls the Rice threat “fascist.”
She threatens that Dems will remember who "collaborated" and those will get no goodies, no grants, no plum committee assignments, no contracts. They will be on the government's and the media's (excrement) lists. Those not imprisoned will become "non-persons."
Imagine if vengeance becomes official Democrat Party policy. Can you think of anything more likely to force MAGA folks and their allies to think thoughts no one in a republic like ours should ever think?
Thoughts about exercising force majeure to avoid another election where the alternative to winning is exile or a life of torment. Civil war might well ensue.
An SOP of political vengeance is third world madness - banana republic autocrats rule till they die in office of natural or unnatural causes - or they self-exile somewhere with no extradition treaty. The penalty for stepping down in-country is lynching or imprisonment (cf. Brazil, South Korea). It is not our way, it is in fact unAmerican in a literal sense.
If highly placed Democrats don't disavow the Rice vengeance formulation, if they let it stand, be warned. I believe it places continuation of our multiparty elected government at serious risk.
