I’ve been checking on the usual suspects today. The RWNJs are going absolutely ape-shit in their hyperbole and lies, and their desperation to get rid of the intrusive national security regime they were so eager to create just a few years ago.
They created DHS, they championed water-boarding, Gitmo, and secret legal proceedings. Before that they were the primary instigators of nearly every attack on civil liberties and privacy in this country in the last 50 years. To them, the constitutionally essential “Miranda warning” is an iconic and farcical example of liberal over-reach. They championed no-knock drug raids and the highway robbery known as drug asset forfeiture. They continue to gleefully advocate the death penalty despite the monumental scandal of dozens of death row exonerations.

It seems in fact that they only oppose authoritarian and intrusive government when they are not the ones in authority or doing the intruding.